Typify

(verb.) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol; 'What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?'.

(verb.) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; 'The fugue typifies Bach's style of composition'.

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• I sound the depths of my heart, and try in vain to draw thence the expressions that can typify my love for these remnants of my race. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The shorter, more frequent waves of the ocean would typify the short, rapid waves which leave the sun, and which on reaching us are interpreted as light. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It was the rush and roar of rain that he typified, and it stopped him, for no voice could be heard in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Miss Gertrude Farish, in fact, typified the mediocre and the ineffectual. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The earliest known traditions describe the stone as having been set in the forehead of the four-handed Indian god who typifies the Moon. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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