How to Use microcosm in a Sentence

microcosm

noun

• The game was a microcosm of the entire season.
• The village is a microcosm of the whole country.
• The scene was a microcosm of the 29-year-old’s rough week at the US Open.
  — Jayna Bardahl, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2022
• For him, the gym is like a microcosm of the world at large.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
• In a way, the game was a microcosm of Saguaro’s season.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2022
• The economies of scale are, of course, unique to the microcosm of exotic cars.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 22 July 2023
• The downturn of the city’s Union Square is a microcosm of that struggle.
  — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• The league’s presence at Gillette is a microcosm of its growth around the nation.
  — Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
• However, the play by Finley was a microcosm of how the game would go for the Tigers.
  — Nubyjas Wilborn | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2022
• Thornhill, in some ways, is a microcosm of the Browns defense as a whole.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
• But in a way, the blackout — and the Dragons' response to it — was a microcosm of their 2022 season.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2022
• In terms of the microcosm that was this series against a strong Mariners team, the loss was an outlier.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• The back-and-forth is a mere microcosm of the culture wars ripping our country apart.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• That in some ways, the story of the effort to create a self-driving car is a microcosm.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
• That rollercoaster of a scene is a microcosm of the show itself.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 19 Sep. 2022
• The playground served as a microcosm of how society saw the sport, and who had access to it.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 17 July 2023
• The city of Palo Alto, Calif. is a microcosm of many of the issues involved.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2022
• The play was a microcosm of the night for Kentucky, which saw its four-game winning streak snapped in a 77-68 loss at Rupp Arena.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 29 Jan. 2023
• And in the entertainment business, this is a microcosm of that.
  — Dana Armstrong, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• In a small way, Dickie and I were microcosms of the political viewpoints of the country.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2023
• Pittsburgh went 0 for 3 against the NHL's worst penalty kill, and a sequence that set up Barzal's goal served as a microcosm of its season.
  — Will Graves, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2024
• Then, that last game, a 31-14 drubbing from Dallas, was a microcosm of his season.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
• In effect, each of the early testers is a microcosm of what others might go through as access to GPT-4 expands.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2023
• Red zone efficiency and production is a microcosm of the overall success that the Browns have had in the last two games.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2022
• The Hawks could do little with that stretch of man advantage, a microcosm of their struggles against the Islanders in a 3-1 loss at the United Center.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• That said, the league is simply a microcosm of a broader world that struggles mightily with all of the vexing issues around race.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• Hong Kong is one of the most biodiverse cities in the world, and its villages, which were often built around natural features and relied on the land, are a microcosm of that.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
• McCarthy is a bit of a microcosm of Alaska itself, a place people have gone to reinvent themselves.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2022
• In a way, that scene is a microcosm of the actor’s decades-long, always-interesting career.
  — David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• The anti-government protests in Sanandaj, 300 miles from the capital, are a microcosm of the leaderless protests that have roiled Iran.
  — Samya Kullab and Salar Salim, Chicago Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024