How to Use avatar in a Sentence

avatar

noun
  • She chose a penguin as her personal avatar in the chat room.
  • She has come to be regarded as an avatar of charity and concern for the poor.
  • The palace was an avatar of the city’s southward creep.
    Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
  • On iOS, just open the Google app and tap on your avatar.
    Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The player’s avatar, Link, starts on a plateau high above the land of Hyrule.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The avatars will be sold for 100 SAND each and released in three waves.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 27 May 2023
  • The avatar looked cheap and flat — and the internet took note.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
  • More than 10 million gamers tuned in — and had the chance to let their avatars dance to the beat.
    NBC News, 2 July 2019
  • The idea of killing him is nonsense; the avatar was never alive in the first place.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2022
  • In the video game, Ms. Morry’s avatar tops her beige-blonde bob with a tiara.
    Rory Satran, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The avatar belongs to a colleague, or worse, your boss.
    Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 8 June 2022
  • Biden is an odd avatar for his party’s changed stance on how to help the poor.
    Bryce Covert, The New Republic, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The text is displayed as a short blurb over a user's avatar.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The games on the site allow kids to create an agent avatar, and then to go on quests to try to play it.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
  • An avatar of Howells was at the center, with a pickaxe and a bag of gold.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • To many of the young men who flocked to Trump in record numbers, Musk was an ideal avatar.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The camera pans around the space as if the viewer is an avatar inside a video game.
    Lindsay Weinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2019
  • Wallace Rob Portman, to me, is the best avatar for why the country is at risk.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
  • He and his cartoon avatar dressed in red long johns and a Napoleon bicorne hat.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • On the days of the anniversary itself, users were not even able to change their avatars.
    Natasha Frost, Quartz, 9 June 2019
  • Watch the trailer above, and get a closer look at Bieber's avatar in the poster below.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Its avatar in the game, a blonde guy with a goatee, was shown stuck at a bus stop in downtown L.A.
    Katie Rothstein, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The way the avatars go from room to room is reminiscent of the NES classic.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The best part for Klum is that players can be creative with their avatars.
    Adriana Lee, WWD, 3 Oct. 2024
  • But Bryant is quick to say that Lady Bri is an avatar, not her true self.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022
  • An avatar plays the trombone while the player moves their mouse up and down to sync with pitches on the screen.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • His avatar floated in front of me and handed me a cup of coffee.
    Sara Castellanos, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Kiss fans will have to wait a little longer to see the band’s first avatar performance.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The avatars blink, raise their eyebrows and move their shoulders with less than a second of reaction time.
    Alexandra Meier, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
  • The person in the avatar even resembled Kohberger in real life, and the user never posted again after Kohberger was arrested.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 11 July 2025

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