[ US /ˈsɪmbəˌɫaɪz/ ]
VERB
  1. express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
    What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?
  2. represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols
    The poet symbolizes love in this poem
    These painters believed that artists should symbolize
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How To Use symbolize In A Sentence

  • The poet has symbolized his lover with a flower.
  • The portrait, reputed to be the most widely reproduced photograph in the world, has come to symbolize not just the ideals of the Cuban revolution but of revolution in general.
  • Besides being the colour of pants worn during training and performing, red trousers symbolize the indentured servitude of children who were bound by contract and often forced to live and train at these schools.
  • The two offerings together symbolized a community of people at peace with God because atonement for sins had been made.
  • The musical instruments symbolize an underlying harmony behind nature's powers, to which the successful alchemist must himself be attuned.
  • You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love. As long as you keep your hand curly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers around it and try to possess it, it will spill through the first cracks it finds. This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love. They try to posses it, they demand, they expect and just like the water spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you.
  • Some loincloths were painted and decorated with tassels, which symbolized falling rain.
  • The veil symbolizes the idea of modesty and conveys the lesson that however attractive physical appearances may be, the soul and character are paramount.
  • Her grids may symbolize pigeonholes but she pays homage to the individuality of people.
  • In very appealing reasoning it is also argued that the complete unbroken circle, symbolizes the Buddhist wheel of life.
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