Sample Sentences foreffigy (editor-reviewed)
effigy as in: burned in effigy
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During the Spanish Inquisition, if the condemned died before their trial was finished, they were burned in effigy.burned in effigy = burned a crude straw man or dummy made to represent a person
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Her tomb has a marble effigy.effigy = image or representation (of her)
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He was burned in effigy by the mob.burned in effigy = burned a crude straw man or dummy that was made to represent a person
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So long as the probe gets to Hermes, they can burn me in effigy for all I care. (source)effigy = a symbolic manner (burning a dummy or representation)
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At first he was a silent effigy of sorrow; but then the lamentation rose out of him, loud and sustained as the conch. (source)effigy = a model or image
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There were further angry demonstrations, Goldstein was burned in effigy, (source)burned in effigy = a symbolic manner (where they burned a dummy made to represent him)
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She was skewered in the press and hanged in effigy by frightened mobs that marched upon the Manse demanding explanations. (source)effigy = a symbolic manner (hanging a dummy that represented her)
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Very slowly the shapes of things return, the trees standing like ancient effigies whispering of the world that once was in some alternate realm where only shadows reside.† (source)
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Denounced, threatened and burned in effigy in Missouri, he did not even bother to seek re-election to the Senate.† (source)
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And as he reached the end of the passage, the memory of a third stone effigy came back to him: that of an ugly old warlock, onto whose head Harry himself had placed a wig and a battered old hat. (source)effigy = a model or other representation
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In the produce section in the bottom of the bins they found a few ancient runner beans and what looked to have once been apricots, long dried to wrinkled effigies of themselves.† (source)
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He is learned in old manorial and communal rights, and he applies his knowledge sometimes in favour of the villagers of Fernworthy and sometimes against them, so that he is periodically either carried in triumph down the village street or else burned in effigy, according to his latest exploit.† (source)
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A man so despised, so foul tempered, so robotically inflexible that on the last day of eighth grade we defaced his yearbook picture with staples and left it like an effigy behind his seat. (source)effigy = a model or other representation of a person that is made to mock or abuse
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Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxworks, displays, film shows, telescreen programmes all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, photographs faked. (source)effigies = crude dummies or representations of people to mock or abuse
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Burned in effigy, accused in the press of "idiocy and impotency," and repudiated by his state and friends, Grimes never recovered—but before he died he declared to a friend: I shall ever thank God that in that troubled hour of trial, when many privately confessed that they had sacrificed their judgment and their conscience at the behests of party newspapers and party hate, I had the courage to be true to my oath and my conscience......Perhaps I did wrong not to commit perjury by order of a party;† (source)
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Mr. Caruso wheeled Jason around so that both of them were staring down the length of the highway to the tall effigy of Uncle Enzo, standing above the intersection like the Statue of Liberty.† (source)
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