symbol
Example Sentences
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After starring in the show, the home became a symbol for Southern California’s suburban, single-family charm.
From Los Angeles Times
In China, red lanterns could guide a traveller to safety in cold winter alleyways, be symbols of power outside an imperial hall, or act as a call to religious devotion when hung in a temple.
From BBC
The payments app operator has applied to list its shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “PAYP.”
With the boxes colored in and filled with symbols, it was like a secret language, a code only knitters could decipher.
From Literature
Footage showed people dancing in the streets of the U.S. capital, some waving Iran’s former “Lion and Sun” flag that has become a symbol of the opposition.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
