What is "symbolised"

Usage examples of "symbolised".

Apollo, associated with the sun, and Venus, whose love is inverted here to be symbolised by a vulgar marriage and various earthy lusts, lots of sloppy feasting and debauchery.

But that braid also symbolised every occasion on which they had been woken from the dead, at the end of the journey.

I stared with sudden loathing at the lifeless facade of Thirty-two as though it symbolised all those wasted years.