How to Use embodiment in a Sentence

embodiment

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the film, the parents are the embodiment of art vs. science, battling for their child’s soul.
    Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • For Bryant, Carter has been the embodiment of a servant leader.
    Jozsef Papp, ajc, 19 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • The mushroom, the embodiment of all things earthy, epitomized this trend.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The result is an embodiment of the idea of a shared life, as if Varda’s late husband’s past had also become her own.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Not just actual laughter but also the way that Mariska is just the embodiment of laughter — of joy.
    Kate Coyne, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Later, a man will mutter that the counter-protesters across the barricades are the embodiment of the antichrist.
    Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • His love became class-action law as the embodiment of justice for all.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 May 2023
  • Petite and bright-eyed with her sharp Sassoon cut, the designer was the ultimate embodiment of the brand.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Is that all there is to Cocaine Bear’s appeal—the embodiment of a primal fear, jacked up on stimulants?
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Italians came to regard him as an embodiment of civic virtue.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Prigozhin, as much as any of the other characters around the president, is a product of that system and an embodiment of the concept of naked force.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • For me, at least, one of the embodiments of this change was the sight of a determined young journalist and activist at the head of a small gay-rights rally near the Bolshoi Theatre.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Final girl Laurie Strode (Curtis, 63) musters up the courage to go face-to-face — well, face-to-mask — with Michael one last time in an attempt to confront the embodiment of evil once and for all.
    Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022
  • This embodiment is seemingly part of our souls or our hearts.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But in this case, Lindsay and Miguel walk around with literal embodiments of those voices in their heads.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • For now, Cano is the embodiment of the controversial trade’s success.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2023
  • To the right stands an embodiment of present-day Napa Valley: the new Miller House, accompanied by a $120 tasting fee.
    Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Welcome to Martha’s Bedford Farm, the embodiment of the perfect farming and gardening life so many dream about!
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 Aug. 2022
  • There was something about getting to see the embodiment of him and my grandmother [Daisy] in those private moments.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
  • With the support of his girlfriend and two sons, the 54-year-old musician, who is the embodiment of a chiseled rock star, suddenly faced the toughest battle of his life.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2022
  • According to some scholars, the Hawaiians gathered for the festival saw Cook as the embodiment of Lono.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024

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