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Example sentences for "symbolises"

Lexicographically close words:
symbolical; symbolically; symbolisation; symbolise; symbolised; symbolising; symbolism; symbolisms; symbolist; symbolistic
  1. This probably symbolises the fertilising action of rain.

  2. The Arab steed here symbolises with fine simplicity the attitude of all those who had sunned themselves in the prosperity of the now fallen King.

  3. The description of the great painting of the fall of Troy is no mere irrelevant decoration to the poem; for the fall of Troy symbolises the fall of the royal house of Tarquin as a consequence of Sextus's crime.

  4. The wind from the four quarters of heaven which becomes the breath of this vast assemblage of men is conceived as the breath of God, and symbolises the life-giving Spirit which makes each of them a living person.

  5. It is true that the fire symbolises destructive might rather than purifying energy (see ch.

  6. The towering height of the cedar with its top in the clouds symbolises the imposing might of Egypt and its ungodly pride (cf.

  7. On the other hand, it expressly symbolises a purification of the Temple as well as of the altar.

  8. On the top of the mountain Adam and Eve stand in the Earthly Paradise, which symbolises blessedness of this life, the end to which an ideal ruler is to lead the human race, and the state of innocence to which the purgatorial pains restore man.

  9. Horn generally symbolises power; here it symbolises a king of peculiar power, Daniel tells us.

  10. The Queen’s Chamber of the Pyramid symbolises the number and condition of the Jews.

  11. As naturally as the goat symbolises Alexander, so will providence in natural history respond.

  12. This thin scale no doubt symbolises the condition of the Jew.

  13. This low horizontal passage terminates in a grand Sabbatic room, which symbolises the Jewish Sabbath-week, feasts, and time periods.

  14. Bad cheese symbolises the startling prodigy of matter taking on vitality.

  15. Bad cheese symbolises the change from the inorganic to the organic.

  16. Thus it symbolises the devil, who is ever anxious to carry away our souls to the deserts of hell.

  17. Baptism symbolises that union in its inception, the Eucharist in its organic life.

  18. In another place he symbolises the Holy Ghost as the female principle, the "Mother of Christ" in His eternal life.

  19. The turning to right and left symbolises the alert guarding of the heads which are supposed to be carried by the victorious warriors.

  20. To dream of abundance of fruit (which symbolises heads) is favourable; any dream of a disagreeable or fearful situation is unfavourable.

  21. By the advice of Plowden magistrate, She undertakes to wean Euphorion, Who in his bounding habit symbolises The future glories of the English empire.

  22. He symbolises the evangelical attitude of those who would go to German Reed's and the Egyptian Hall, but would not attend a theatre.

  23. The reddish colour perhaps symbolises blood and may denote that the wearers still sacrifice flesh and consume it.

  24. Fire is the great purifier, and this ceremony probably symbolises the immolation of the delinquent and her new birth.

  25. The proceeding perhaps symbolises roughly the birth of a child.

  26. This is a common ceremony among the forest tribes, and symbolises the idea that the man will support himself and his wife by hunting.

  27. This symbolises her transfer to the god of the new sept.

  28. In Fears and Scruples it symbolises the reticence of God.

  29. The little vignette in the opening lines finely symbolises the brilliant Greek decadence, as does the closing picture in Karshish the mystic dawn of the Earth.

  30. It is the name of Louis XIV, of course, which symbolises this great time; his very long reign precisely corresponds to it.

  31. Such an act sufficiently symbolises the mental attitude of the Revolutionaries.

  32. Moses, trampling on the golden calf and carrying in his left hand the table of the law and a column about which the brazen serpent entwines, stands next to Abraham, and likewise symbolises Christ, the Deliverer and the Law-Giver.

  33. Their enthusiasm for the exclusive rights of the one Temple symbolises their loyalty to the one God, Jehovah, and their hatred of idolatry.

  34. Probably the steady increase of the armies of Abijah, Asa, and Jehoshaphat symbolises a proportionate increase of Divine favour.

  35. The devotion of his kings to the Temple symbolises the truth that the ideal state is impossible without recognition of a Divine presence and obedience to a Divine will.

  36. We have already suggested that the chronicler's somewhat rigid doctrine of temporal rewards and punishments symbolises the inevitable influence of conduct on the development of character.

  37. Afterwards we saw the challenge to a trial of flight of the beetle and the wren with the eagle, in which the animal that symbolises the moon, on the other hand, wins the race.

  38. The hog symbolises fat; and therefore, in the sixteenth Esthonian story, the hog is eaten at weddings.

  39. The weird mediaeval dream of the anti-Christ, drawn from Apocalyptic literature, symbolises this occult possibility.

  40. The woman is seated in front of the tent-like structure with the flower, which symbolises the yet unborn child in the womb, in her lap.

  41. Hook-swinging symbolises this incident, and the bloodshed by the insertion of the hook through the flesh is intended as an offering to the goddess.

  42. This dialogue, I sometimes think, symbolises the attitude of the new world to the old, and the old to the new.

  43. A bunch of paper, yellow and white, symbolises his money; and perhaps a couple of figures represent attendants.

  44. By passionate observation they have learnt what expression of the part most inevitably symbolises the whole.

  45. He is preserved by Siva and he has no fear from Sudarsana (the chakra weapon of Vishnu, which symbolises Time.

  46. So the bird symbolises a discriminating sage.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "symbolises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.