How to Use archetype in a Sentence

archetype

noun

• Think of them as your archetype.
  — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 9 Feb. 2026
• But those archetypes are hard to pin down at first.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 May 2026
• Same polemic, just with Bush-era archetypes.
  — Emma Green, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
• This is where the grifter archetypes tend to differ most.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
• And not all the kids are going to be the same archetype.
  — Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2025
• Sheriffs have dined out on this archetype for years and years.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 16 Feb. 2018
• Since his childhood, he has been drawn to the archetype of the priest.
  — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• The girlboss wasn’t the first time a boss archetype was put on a pedestal.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• His archetype is a unique one for the Warriors.
  — Sam Gordon, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2026
• At the heart of the film are two young men who are riffs on gangster-film archetypes.
  — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
• Joe sees them from far away and judges them and recognizes the archetype.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2023
• And as the archetype wavered, its pop-culture avatars got weird.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 17 June 2021
• The characters feel like they’ve been plucked from a book of archetypes.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
• Archie had some of the power of an archetype because there were so many like him.
  — David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021
• Giddey doesn’t fit any standard archetype.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
• Smith fits the archetype and is a stash candidate with huge upside.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
• An archetype, Marty told me, was like a clearing in the woods.
  — Eboo Patel, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
• But boho-chic has come back in ways that surpass the Chloé archetype.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
• This archetype has a big vision, charisma and plenty of great ideas.
  — Yec, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Our film has plenty of archetypes and references to the book’s myths.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Over the past couple of years, the mean-girl archetype has expanded.
  — Jasmine Arielle Ting, Teen Vogue, 2 May 2018
• The biker’s been such an enduring archetype over the decades.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2024
• There’s a familiar archetype for this kind of purchase.
  — Lindsey Harn, Fortune, 6 June 2026
• What struck me was how these archetypes transcended borders.
  — Toyna Chin, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• But now, she's done relying on filling an archetype.
  — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
• The archetype is an investor who has borrowed to fund his purchase and has his loan called.
  — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
• This is fitting given the sign's archetype of the shaman, Montúfar says.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
• One jewel, and a franchise—and comic archetype—was born.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
• And the vast scope of the show means that there is not enough space made for the historical archetype.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 3 Nov. 2017
• Let’s keep pounding away at the archetype fallacy.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025