Sample Sentences for
avatar
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(editor-reviewed)

avatar as in:  her avatar in cyberspace

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    I spent hours customizing my avatar in the new virtual reality game, choosing the perfect outfit and hairstyle to represent my online persona.
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    I'd designed my avatar's face and body to look, more or less, like my own.  (source)
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    Your avatar can look any way you want it to, up to the limitations of your equipment.  (source)
    avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
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    They died as if someone had just taken down their avatar in Call of Duty.†  (source)
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    Nadia frequently explored the terrain of social media, though she left little trace of her passing, not posting much herself, and employing opaque usernames and avatars, the online equivalents of her black robes.  (source)
    avatars = digital representations of a computer user on a computer network
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    You just get their avatar names.†  (source)
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    It wouldn't be all that hard to create avatars-computerized personas.  (source)
    avatars = digital representations computer-users
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    Your daughter has been chosen by the Avatar to atone in a way which all sinners and nonbelievers must someday suffer.†  (source)
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    Thenardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become Jondrette.†  (source)
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    An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality—a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood.†  (source)
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    Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are subject to adventures, and, for instance, become national property; he had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt.†  (source)
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    That "avatar," of course, was quintessential Faulkner, and I was so tickled at the way she used the word, and by her restored beauty, that I found myself disgorging loud coarse cackles of laugher.†  (source)
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    and maybe still standing there and holding the stallion's reins after Sutpen had entered the cabin, still hearing the galloping, watching the proud galloping image merge and pass, galloping through avatars which marked the accumulation of years, time, to the fine climax where it galloped without weariness or progress, forever and forever immortal beneath the brandished sabre and the shot-torn flags rushing down a sky in color like thunder;†  (source)
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avatar as in:  an avatar of the god, Vishnu

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Hindus believe that Lord Vishnu has taken numerous avatars throughout history, such as Rama and Krishna, to intervene in human affairs.
avatars = earthly manifestations of a Hindu god
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    Lord Rama, the seventh avatar of Vishnu, is revered for his righteous rule and moral integrity.
    avatar = earthly manifestation
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    Many avatars of Vishnu appear in Hindu literature.
    avatars = earthly manifestations of a Hindu god
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    They were pitiless, powerful avatars from another world.  (source)
    avatars = earthly manifestations of gods in human form
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    Or the names of his incarnations—his avatars, if you want to get technical.  (source)
    avatars = earthly manifestations of one of the Hindu gods in human or animal form
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    She studied my face, my reflection, just like a village girl who is surprised in the act of drawing water at the well, and who must now read the intentions of the tall, smiling avatar whom she sees standing behind her.  (source)
    avatar = an earthly manifestation of one of the Hindu gods
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    The Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar.  (source)
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    It was wrong of this Christian God to let His avatar die.  (source)
    avatar = earthly manifestation
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    Even Rama, that most human of avatars, who had to be reminded of his divinity when he grew long-faced over the struggle to get Sita, his wife, back from Ravana, evil king of Lanka, was no slouch.  (source)
    avatars = earthly manifestations of a Hindu god
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Even as we got older, Miranda always made sure to try to include August in our conversations, ask him how he was doing, talk to him about Avatar or Star Wars or Bone or something she knew he liked.  (source)
Avatar = the title of a movie
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