symbol

Example Sentences

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It’s easy to get caught up in the hoopla of Michelin stars and World’s 50 Best lists, but by making restaurants status symbols, we often forget that their purpose is to nourish and sustain us.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet no migrants ever stayed at the Armoni, which became a symbol of rampant waste and abuse in the city’s hapless contracting with human-services companies and nonprofits.

From The Wall Street Journal

Julia “Butterfly” Hill — whose ethereal, barefoot portraits high in the redwood canopy became a symbol of the Redwood Summer — spent two years living in a thousand-year-old tree, named Luna, to keep it from being felled.

From Los Angeles Times

The smaller denomination eurocents carry an image of the Madara rider, a symbol of early Bulgarian statehood, based on an 8th Century rock relief.

From BBC

Owning a pet bird was - and for some generations in China, still is - a status symbol.

From BBC