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Example sentences for "typifies"

Lexicographically close words:
typhoons; typhus; typical; typically; typified; typify; typifying; typing; typis; typist
  1. For the first typifies concrete impersonality, the second abstract impersonality, while the province of the last is to ridicule personality generally.

  2. So to the Far Oriental this still little lake typifies the soul, the eventual purification of his own; a something lost in reflection, self-effaced, only the alter ego of the outer world.

  3. This is the figure of a lion with the head of a man, and typifies the Pharaoh as the incarnation of divine wisdom.

  4. The slogan, "Down with the moonshine still and up with the moonlight school," typifies the spirit of the upland community.

  5. This man's view typifies the educational vision that is sweeping over the South.

  6. This emblem typifies a free people, who have voluntarily placed themselves under the restraints of the law, who have consented that individual liberty shall cease where it infringes upon the right or property of another.

  7. It is very gratifying to see a people in love with their civil institutions and with that glorious flag which typifies our diversity and our unity.

  8. This monument, so imposing and tasteful, fittingly typifies the grand and symmetrical character of him in whose honor it has been builded.

  9. The fragrance of upland lehua (moani lehua, a'e la mauka, verse 3) typifies the charms of the woman he pursues.

  10. The rain, which prefers to linger in the upland regions of Nuuanu (verses 3 and 4) and which often reaches not the lower levels, typifies his brooding affection.

  11. The East typifies the infinite, Greece the finite or reflective epoch, the modern era the stage of relation or correlation of infinite and finite.

  12. In process of construction during the 16th and 17th centuries; the building that best typifies the importance of the church during the middle ages.

  13. Cibber’s work typifies the change that was going on in the moral reformation of the drama, as it likewise shows the development characteristic of the time in other elements of the drama.

  14. Aprile, in the poem fashioned about Paracelsus, the wandering scholar, typifies love as the latter represents knowledge.

  15. Some of these literati have displayed considerable ingenuity in their attempt to prove that it typifies the struggle of the Netherlands against Spain; Orange corresponding to Lucifer, Philip II.

  16. Furthermore, the tragedy typifies the character of the Hollanders themselves; a people who, as Charles V.

  17. Therefore the Jewish Sabbath day of rest only typifies the blessed rest of the day of salvation by grace, and not by works.

  18. As the ancient literal city of Babylon typifies the great spiritual Babylon, so the literal city of Jerusalem typifies the spiritual Jerusalem or Zion or church of God.

  19. Some have taught that circumcision of the Old Testament typifies infant baptism.

  20. The Allied forces, who in Raemaekers' drawing stand for Liberty, are assuredly destined to wring the neck of the Prussian eagle, which typifies the tyranny of brute force.

  21. Malsum typifies destruction and sin in several of these tales.

  22. This is an indication of day and night, since he is distinctly stated to have as an attendant Kulpejotei, who typifies the course of the seasons.

  23. The Poem proceeds more intelligibly, by drawing a comparison which typifies his own humble relation to his exalted friend.

  24. The yellow light-image, which all but alone typifies God’s friendliness in the Bible, is thus turned into a red fire-image.

  25. Then, also, it typifies scenery, skill, and artistic capabilities.

  26. Money typifies outsiders, or the world in general, or unknown persons.

  27. The name, Temperance, given to this card, seems to be rather misleading and modern, since the picture evidently typifies this most ancient custom.

  28. The ox typifies strength, and the lion courage, while the eagle suggests inspiration and the power of soaring above mundane affairs.

  29. The figure being raised above the earth, and in a position of pain, together with humility, typifies a mind withdrawn from temporal ideas, or a martyr to science.

  30. The Hebrew letter for this card is Kaph, which typifies a grasping hand.

  31. The mouse also represents her, and it typifies fecundity.

  32. The figure also typifies innocence, so the fable of Una and the lion seems to be depicted, whether intentionally or not.

  33. The suit typifies dark people and the element of air, and protects those who fly, whether birds or men.

  34. There can be no doubt that this typifies the accomplishment of the vow, the taking which was set forth by the crossed legs.

  35. The curious tracery of net-work typifies the obscure manner in which heavenly things are set forth, while we look at them from the Church Militant.

  36. The material Sun indeed typifies the Sun of Righteousness: but in what particulars?

  37. His monarchy, with its powers inherited, as well as radiating from his own personality, provided an imperial government for western Europe.

  38. It was after his death that Augustus established the Roman order through the land.

  39. He had Latin speech; he had Roman fashions; he took his warm baths and his cold, enjoyed the sports of the amphitheatre, studied Roman literature, and talked of the Respublica and Aurea Roma.

  40. From Spain, apparently, came Theodulphus, by descent a Goth, and reputed the most elegant Latin versifier of his time.

  41. This principle is most important for the true appreciation of the intellectual and emotional phenomena of the Middle Ages.

  42. But in those superstitious centuries, before as well as after him, these cruder elements were gathered and made much of by men of note.

  43. One thinks at once of Cicero's splendid breadth of humane and literary interest.

  44. For that carried an impassioning of its teachings with love and tears, a fostering of them with devotion, an adorning of them with quivering fantasies, a translation of them into art, into poetry, into romance.

  45. Such metrical effort, quite as much as Einhart's consciously classicizing Latin prose, represents a survival of the antique excited to recrudescence in forms which, if they were not classical, at least had not become anything else.

  46. Still more was the character of mediaeval progress set by the action and effect of these two forces.

  47. The symbol of the doves flying over the ark of the covenant typifies the spiritual origin of birth, the ark being the primordial egg, from which issued all the forms of life.

  48. The formation of the tabernacle proves that it typifies the mother's womb.

  49. The stories involving the turning of men into animals and their final restoration to human form, as a reward for some service, some sacrifice, typifies the two-fold nature of Man.

  50. It all typifies a fast-decaying system of fort defence, and on that account, and because so picturesque, it is worthy of the closest examination and interest.

  51. As the burnt-offering typifies Christ in death, the meat-offering typifies Him in life.

  52. It typifies Christ's death as viewed and valued by God alone.

  53. Aaron, when spoken of by himself, typifies Christ in His own peerless excellency and dignity; and, as we know, Christ appeared in all His own personal worth and was anointed by the Holy Ghost previous to the accomplishment of His atoning work.

  54. This latter typifies the death of Christ as that wherein God has been perfectly glorified with respect to sin in general.

  55. The meat-offering typifies "the Man Christ Jesus" in His perfect human life.

  56. It typifies in the best manner the construction of the early days; the staunchness of its build is evinced in its frame and walls, which are as sound as when first laid.

  57. The house as a whole typifies the highest ideals of a bygone period.

  58. English composition is perhaps the best single test of the general healthfulness of school instruction, and it typifies life in general.

  59. The dragon is a familiar object on Chinese porcelain, and being the Imperial arms it typifies all that is powerful and indeed terrible.

  60. Like the Chakra, or "Wheel of the Law," it typifies the doctrine of perpetual cycles of existence.


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