How to Use symbolic in a Sentence

symbolic

adjective

• The lighting of the candles is symbolic.
• The sharing of the wine has symbolic meaning.
• A lot of the strikes in the past 20 years have been symbolic more than strategic.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• The scene with the needle, which goes deep into the vein, was very symbolic.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
• For Yang, at least, the drop in pay is largely symbolic.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• All sorts of things are thrown into the fires, like wood, leaves and food, in a symbolic purge of evil and triumph of good.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• The awards feel symbolic, not only of his success as an artist, but as a son.
  — Mitchell Kuga, Billboard, 9 June 2023
• The job is just to be a symbolic representation of the UK.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 13 Mar. 2024
• The first, from a symbolic perspective, is your life right now.
  — Amy Raasch, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• The action is likely to have little more than symbolic impact for the singer, who lives in Ukraine.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Your dinner prayer could range from symbolic and lengthy to short and simple.
  — Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 7 June 2023
• The monks in charge of the site conducted a funeral mass for him, marking his symbolic death.
  — Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
• The subject carries a symbolic function: The bath is an act of cleansing — of starting fresh.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Across the state spring teams convened for the first time under sunny skies, symbolic of the hope inherent in the start of a new season.
  — Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• Since taking office, Boric has paid symbolic homage to Allende at home and in the United States.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• Throughout the Bible and even in Western culture, snakes and serpents are symbolic of evil or the devil.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 2 Sep. 2023
• Blue is still considered symbolic of Ireland — so how did green become the go-to hue for those who don’t want to get pinched?
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• There are moments within the retelling of the tale where the readers are instructed to pause for a prayer or to eat a specific symbolic item from the seder plate.
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2024
• The revolution involved protests all around the country, but Tahrir was always the symbolic heart of it.
  — Ariana Bennett, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2023
• The site is so symbolic, in fact, that medals created for the Games will be encrusted with iron from the tower itself.
  — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• By the end of year, on the tail of Ukraine’s counterattacks in Kharkiv and Kherson, the city assumes an outsize symbolic value.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• The split screen is symbolic of the state of race for the Republican nomination.
  — WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
• Either way, 1869 is more a symbolic birthday rather than a true origin date.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2023
• In typical style for the service, the couple wore black with symbolic red poppy pins.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
• So the dispute has become symbolic and may be resolved by how much or how little each side can live with.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• And, in some ways, that’s symbolic of the entire microschooling movement.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2023
• The involved tribe’s attorney asked for a symbolic sanction of $10.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
• The gathering will be symbolic, if little else is achieved.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• For Charles, the commemoration would have been a highly symbolic place to meet Biden.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• The faithful often act out the events of Good Friday by carrying a large wooden cross and crown of thorns symbolic of the suffering of Christ.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 8 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024