living embodiment
noun
: someone that is a perfect representative or example of a quality, characteristic, etc.
He is the living embodiment of cheapness.
Examples of living embodiment in a Sentence
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Mary Hidalgo is one of the few who is a living embodiment of both.
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Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
And then there’s Kelce, who has proved to be the living embodiment of boyfriend goals.
—Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
Is Miami succeeding despite having small government and being a living embodiment of globalization and creative destruction?
—Dominic Pino, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
Bennett — a star in the 1950s, a has-been by the 1970s — would soon become the living embodiment of the Great American Songbook for the MTV generation.
—James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
In 1982 — and again in 1983 — Rhee dressed 229 of his pupils in red, white and blue taekwondo uniforms and arranged them into a human Stars and Stripes, a living embodiment of patriotism.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
For centuries, Japanese rulers were considered the living embodiment of gods – but after the postwar US occupation of Japan, the country introduced a new constitution that banned the Imperial family from engaging in politics.
—Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 2 Jan. 2023
Smiling with her arm around Peltola, Murkowski was the living embodiment of an endangered form of bipartisan mingling that now infuriates a strain of the state and national Republican Party.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
Marisol is the living embodiment of warmth and kindness, but no pushover.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
And then there’s Kelce, who has proved to be the living embodiment of boyfriend goals.
—Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
Is Miami succeeding despite having small government and being a living embodiment of globalization and creative destruction?
—Dominic Pino, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
Bennett — a star in the 1950s, a has-been by the 1970s — would soon become the living embodiment of the Great American Songbook for the MTV generation.
—James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
In 1982 — and again in 1983 — Rhee dressed 229 of his pupils in red, white and blue taekwondo uniforms and arranged them into a human Stars and Stripes, a living embodiment of patriotism.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
For centuries, Japanese rulers were considered the living embodiment of gods – but after the postwar US occupation of Japan, the country introduced a new constitution that banned the Imperial family from engaging in politics.
—Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 2 Jan. 2023
Smiling with her arm around Peltola, Murkowski was the living embodiment of an endangered form of bipartisan mingling that now infuriates a strain of the state and national Republican Party.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
Marisol is the living embodiment of warmth and kindness, but no pushover.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
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“Living embodiment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/living%20embodiment. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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