Sample Sentences for
effigy
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effigy as in:  burned in effigy

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    It was a cemetery of dead forms, of funereal effigy and stone angels.†  (source)
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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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    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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    Before I turn away I see her straighten her blue skirt, clench her legs together; she continues lying on the bed, gazing up at the canopy above her, stiff and straight as an effigy.†  (source)
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