What is "typify"

Usage examples of "typify".

Dutch, and first published in English in 1985, this book quickly became a standard text: it has the precision, concision, and clarity which typify narratology at its best - like all the important works in the field, this is not a massive tome.

Late Renaissance, a Mannerist, one whose style typified the movement toward elegance.

Reminiscent of the immortal Tartarin, his ready bureau furnished him with a stiff black moustache and some specially stout horsehair to typify the stubbly beard of that hero.

And they enact none of the melodramatics that typify ungratified yearning.

And that relationship more than anything typified the administration of the Western Realm: hard, logical, evenhanded justice, tempered with mercy.

Their mouths were open, showing the filed teeth and reptilian tongue that typified the ghoulie, creatures who dwelled in the darkest corners of city ruins, waiting to rend and chill.

Though this research is in the formative stage, I am encouraged by what appears to be a dual manifestation of cardiac and neurological shutoff typified by simultaneous twitchlike movement of the eyes combined with a measurable slackening of the lips.

The modes and sources of this kind of error are well typified in the contemplation of the heavenly bodies.

This snippy exchange typifies the sort of selfless commitment and close interagency cooperation that has helped make the drug war the raging success that it is.

And since, on this world-embracing scale, it was clear that Siegfried must come into conflict with many baser and stupider forces than those lofty ones of supernatural religion and political constitutionalism typified by Wotan and his wife Fricka, these minor antagonists had to be dramatized also in the persons of Alberic, Mime, Fafnir, Loki, and the rest.

Citizen Chaumette's Goddess of Reason by all means--Henriot conceded that the idea was a good one--but the goddess merely as a figure-head: around her a procession of unfrocked and apostate priests, typifying the destruction of ancient hierarchy, mules carrying loads of sacred vessels, the spoils of ten thousand churches of France, and ballet girls in bacchanalian robes, dancing the Carmagnole around the new deity.

The entomologist, who confines himself rigidly to the study of the coleoptera, is intended to typify this class.

The plundering, genocide, defoliation and gang rape that typified the peninsula's past had been toned down for the sake of Francis X.

This ensemble typifies the struggle between conscience and the passions, between the divine soul and the animal soul.

The former are typified by the stiletto and the cut-throat razor respectively, while the later are typified by the rapier and the axe.