Sample sentences for EMBODIMENT

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a physical representation of a concept

But the administrative changes that embodied the ideas, the changes that the colonists imposed, mattered more.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains

I had played with the idea of trying a long romantic novel embodying the feel, if not the exact sense, of the Browning poem.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
And I find it ironic that I landed in a place that embodies so many of my dreams.
Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
None of us alone can embody who he is.
Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
To embody old things, old beliefs.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
Armoured they come rolling on in long lines, more than anything else embody for us the horror of war.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
Law embodies the will of the people.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
Her sombre violence constrained him: she seemed the embodied instrument of fate.
Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
She paused, embarrassed and yet smiling, and Archer suddenly saw before him the embodied image of the Family.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
I have seen—I embody—the vision of the dragon: absolute, final waste.
John Gardner -- Grendel
Sunny, however, seemed to embody the essence of my gentle, timid species; we were powerful only in great numbers.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
Heroes embody that struggle.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
If you want to be technical, I embody the authority of the Terran Corporation.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party.
George Orwell -- 1984
To others, he was simply the bitter emblem and embodiment of their darkest days.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
Everest was the embodiment of the physical forces of the world.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
He thought of the old device of double take, how it comically embodies the lapsed moment where a life used to be.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
And also I will embody your name in my offeecial report when matter is finally adjudicated.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
But he was the embodiment of the raw, crude violence of the West.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon

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