Sample sentences for EXEMPLIFY

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Definition

to act as an example

When he said "Let's roll," his courage exemplified America's determination to defend itself.

exemplified = acted as an example

To exemplify that particular situation, we can look to a cool day in late June.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

exemplify = show something using an example

It exemplified the economic expansion of the manufacturing-based Rust Belt town.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

exemplified = acted as an example of

Nor do either of those terms connote the courage people in such pains exemplify, which is why I'd ask you to frame your mental health around a word other than crazy.
John Green -- Turtles All the Way Down

exemplify = demonstrate as an example

This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue
It has been truly said that a little learning is a dangerous thing, and you have exemplified it to-night with your madcap theories.
Jack London -- The Iron Heel
The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
Henry Ward Beecher
"Cedric was a person who exemplified many of the qualities that distinguish Hufflepuff house," Dumbledore continued.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Approach and judge for yourselves, gentlemen; ye'll see faith exemplified in an exceeding and wonderful manner.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
This will not solve the problem which this crime exemplifies.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
Because I would be exemplifying things that are already undergoing a change.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
They exemplify what I have said.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
So these two were each exemplifying the Vanity of this life, and each longing for what he or she could not get.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
The world-old phenomenon of the contact of diverse races of men is to have new exemplification during the new century.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

Summer in America exemplifies fun.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
His favorite biblical verse, Isaiah 1:18, exemplifies his passion for building coalitions: "Come now, let us reason together."
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
They got there with courage best exemplified by Tony Stein's headlong charge.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
It exemplified the complex ways that family trees grow behind bars, like topiaries trained into very odd shapes.
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
To what extent does his abominable behaviour exemplify the attitude of the present American administration?
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
I thus became aware of the mutual relations between them and Mr. Pocket, which were exemplified in the following manner.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

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