Example Sentences

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Could putting ourselves in another animal’s shoes — anthropomorphically speaking — actually help us understand them better?

From Salon • May 12, 2025

“The virus, speaking anthropomorphically, just wants to spread and have its genes replicated,” said Adalja.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 2, 2021

It’s possible to read these anthropomorphically, as walking or marching figures, and they give the painting a powerful left-to-right dynamic.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019

Some biologists anthropomorphically call this “the prisoner effect.”

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2010

Of this theory we accept as true that the belief in fairies often anthropomorphically reflects the natural environment as well as the social condition of the people who hold the belief.

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans