Sample Sentences for
icon
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

icon as in:  computer icon

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Click the trash can icon to delete the file.
icon = symbol on a screen
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    People recognize well-known icons more quickly than they recognize well-known words.
    icons = graphic symbols used to indicate a concept
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    The app's icon features a blue envelope to represent email.
    icon = symbol on a screen
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    I took a seat at my desk and tapped the Engage icon at the edge of my display.  (source)
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    Only the icon for the Internet was left, sitting in the middle of the screen.  (source)
    icon = a graphic image or symbol on the computer screen that will run a program when clicked
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    Those photos had become icons, emblazoned on posters—already collectors' pieces.†  (source)
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    There's no icon for a browser.  (source)
    icon = graphic symbol used to indicate a program
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    He was letting you break your icons one by one.†  (source)
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    I see a paper-clip icon with a JPEG extension.†  (source)
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    In 2013, along with Marsha Colbey, we decided to honor the charismatic former director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Elaine Jones, and the progressive ice-cream icons Ben (Cohen) and Jerry (Greenfield).†  (source)
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    Gabriel reached down, tapped a few keys on the keyboard, and clicked on the play icon on the screen.†  (source)
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    They belonged with waistcoats and corsets, with quadrilles and bezique, with the ownership of souls, the payment of tribute, and the stacking of icons in the corner.†  (source)
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    He pressed his thumb over the new mail icon.†  (source)
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    Druses, patriarchs, icons, bed-bugs, Romanesque remains, curious dishes of goat and sheeps' eyes, French and Turkish officials—all the catalogue of Near Eastern travel was provided for our amusement.†  (source)
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icon as in:  pop culture icon

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    Elvis is a rock and roll icon.
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    She's the company icon, Mr. Branitt.  (source)
    icon = someone famous that represents something in a culture
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    While some papers described me as a "peace icon," others carried the usual conspiracy theories, some bloggers even questioning if I had really been shot.  (source)
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    Princess Alyss Heart: not alive in flesh and blood, but very much alive as a symbol of more innocent (though still imperfect) times, an icon of hope for peace's return.  (source)
    icon = an image that represents something in a culture
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    The first twenty programs in the series included essays from a senator, several business leaders, a labor leader, two college presidents, a movie producer, a philosophy professor, a baseball umpire, and two certified national icons: Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt.  (source)
    icons = people widely recognized as symbols
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    The man, in his late fifties, was an American icon, well loved, robust, and incalculably wealthy.  (source)
    icon = someone famous that represents something in a culture
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    The press wanted tales of blood-and-guts heroism from the living icons in front of them.  (source)
    icons = people widely admired and recognized as symbols
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    Now, two years later, he strode among the young boys of Camp Pendleton, an icon who was willing to wade once more into the horrors of battle at their helm.  (source)
    icon = someone famous that represents something in a culture
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icon as in:  holy icon

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Icons are especially popular in Eastern Christianity.
icons = paintings of religious figures
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    Protestants discouraged creation and reverence of icons during the Reformation.
    icons = religious artwork
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    If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.  (source)
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    As it happened my suitcase had been small enough to bring aboard, which I was happy about for any number of reasons: my sweater, Wind, Sand and Stars, but most of all my painting, which felt like an article of protection even wrapped up and out of view, like a holy icon carried by a crusader into battle.  (source)
    icon = sacred image
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    And neither can we excuse them as we excuse the manettes, the household images, the icons of sensible societies: our small images of holiness are not worshipped as holy in themselves, they are symbolic reminders of the larger, grander Buddhas of the forest, or humble symbols of the unspeakable, itself by no means humble.  (source)
    icons = religious artworks
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    The gage is some kind of religious icon and I'm performing a holy rite with it.  (source)
    icon = sacred image or symbol
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    I now remember not only the days when people were chased from houses of worship with guns, but also those poor Russians who traded for food their most treasured possessions but kept the holy icons.  (source)
    icons = religious artworks
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    Traditionally, the icon was sculpted in stone or wood or rendered as a drawing.  (source)
    icon = religious artwork
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    In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles.  (source)
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    The lanyard was pulled, the protective draping swung free, and the Iwo Jima memorial statue took its place amidst the sacred icons of the nation.  (source)
    icons = sacred artworks
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    Instead he didn't say a word, only gazed at me with a sort of grieved fubsiness, haloed by his work lamp, tools arrayed on the walls behind him like Masonic icons.  (source)
    icons = sacred images
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