How to Use embody in a Sentence

embody

verb

• The legislature embodied a revenue provision in the new law.
• More than mere culinary spaces, kitchens tend to embody the heart of a home.
  — Kim Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• The pink sneakers with red soles embody the rapper and her world of Gag City seamlessly.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 1 Apr. 2024
• At stake in Adam and Eve’s transgression in the Garden is the knowledge of good and evil, which embodies power.
  — Christopher Knight, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• Each piece is made to embody what Disney has meant to each contributor to the auction.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 27 Oct. 2023
• People who do their thing, in their own way, and embody the essence of their communities.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2023
• Or, rather, how does Held By Trees use music to embody that transition?
  — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 28 June 2023
• Surfers put themselves through this life cycle over and over again in the water, learning to embody resiliency along the way.
  — Claire Salinda, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• The big question is embodied in whether Trump wins with more than a majority, and if so, by how much.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
• The dream is to embody the AI services people might access on a TV, computer, or phone.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
• The themes of creation and recreation are embodied in the album’s Protean sonic twists.
  — Beverly Bryan, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
• This movie embodies almost every way in which time travel might fail to make sense.
  — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
• And nowhere embodies the statewide split like Door County, the pinky finger reaching into Lake Michigan on the eastern side of the state.
  — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
• The models on the runway who embodied it best were those channelling Jane Birkin, the singer and model known for traipsing around Paris with a wicker basket in the late '60s.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 July 2023
• Maguire embodied the true essence of Spider-Man: that a superhero so amazing could also be the kid next door.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• South of Tel Aviv, the ancient port city of Jaffa has been enjoying a rebirth, embodied by the five-year-old hotel that bears its name.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2023
• Their scruffy human spirit was embodied in the very way that they’d been created.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 June 2023
• Those themes are embodied by 331 artists, most of whom will be unfamiliar to even seasoned art snobs.
  — Zachary Small, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• The interiors and rooms embody coastal chic, and provide the perfect backdrop for a weekend of New England fun.
  — Kristin Koch, Seventeen, 28 Aug. 2023
• The food embodies Taiwan’s yearning for recognition as a nation, or at least as a culture of its own.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• Melton’s Joe manages to physically embody a 13-year-old in the shoulders of an anxious 36-year-old father of three.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023
• Behind it all is Caitlin Clark, a University of Iowa senior who embodies the future of the game.
  — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024
• Swift’s fans want to embody their favorite Era — and that means splurging on elaborate outfits and costumes.
  — Emily Sabens, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• This mood combines what’s going on in your mind with how your organs, muscles, and nerves are embodying the moment.
  — Jessica Wapner, The New Yorker, 6 July 2023
• So there's something about that where the character also has to embody the contradiction of being one thing and not the other.
  — EW.com, 24 Feb. 2024
• For a show about high school football games, this small-town series somehow came to embody a certain Southern culture.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 5 July 2023
• Much of this was embodied by the state of Mississippi, which in 1870 was majority Black.
  — Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2024
• The ears, elegantly cast in silver from the artist’s own, embody the role of listening in therapy.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• The four-bed, four-bath gem was built in 1956 and embodies the same aesthetic as other notable Usonian abodes.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 31 July 2023
• This color—call it gray-green, sage, or pale green—embodies the essence of renewal and tranquility, what the season is all about.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024