How to Use embodiment in a Sentence

embodiment

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  • She's the embodiment of all our hopes.
  • Mother Theresa was often regarded as the embodiment of selfless devotion to others.
  • And that music was the embodiment of the idea of what this band is all about.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Biles is, in many ways, the embodiment of those changes.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
  • Michael's whole life is an embodiment of why that isn’t the case.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Tuck herself is a force, an embodiment of the ebb and flow of life.
    — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2023
  • And the next, the embodiment of everything in all of us that just wants to be good, just wants to be loved.
    — Carvell Wallace, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2023
  • He was once cheered as the embodiment of the Chinese dream.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2021
  • But also the way that Mariska is just the embodiment of laughter — of joy.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • So this is, to some degree, an artist’s portrait of that and the embodiment of their love.
    — Janell Ross, Time, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Active embodiment like this is, for me, the purest form of self-love.
    — Abeni Jones, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2022
  • To her, the adult daycare center was the embodiment of love.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 13 Aug. 2021
  • In the film, the parents are the embodiment of art vs. science, battling for their child’s soul.
    — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • In it, the artist lay in the hammock for eight hours as a physical embodiment of leisure.
    — Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 June 2024
  • Moms are the true embodiment of ‘non-stop’ because the work never ends.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 3 May 2022
  • As Finnix, Keaton is the embodiment of the good country doctor.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • And here to deal with it all is the chin mask, half on, half off, the physical, facial, embodiment of life in the summer of 2021.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
  • For me, Kelly and Adam are the physical embodiment of the city.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 June 2024
  • These people disliked the West, and Winston Churchill was an embodiment of the West.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 June 2024
  • But DeJa’s embodiment of the song edged her out just enough to earn her place back, leaving Daya Betty to get the chop.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2022
  • For Bryant, Carter has been the embodiment of a servant leader.
    — Jozsef Papp, ajc, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Khaby is the embodiment of what a BOSS stands for today.
    — Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Jokic is the embodiment of the modern N.B.A., where more and more centers decide to bring the ball up themselves.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Ado’s awe-inspiring voice was an embodiment of the movement of the smoke shown on the enormous center screen.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2024
  • This way of standing was seen as an embodiment of high-class decadence.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The final ingredient in that idyll: a man in a white mask who would become the embodiment of pure evil.
    — Jamie Lee Curtis, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Since then, the hat Napoleon was known to both throw to the floor in fits of anger and carry valiantly into battle has become the embodiment of the tragic hero.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • These folks are the true embodiment of ride-or-die energy.
    — Glamour, 27 May 2022
  • And for me, Chicken Man was the embodiment of it — this kind of local neighborhood hustler who was a big dreamer.
    — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2024
  • But there’s also another side to it, which is the embodiment of someone very fierce and strong and protected.
    — Allison Noelle Conner, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024

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