archetype

Example Sentences

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On a surface level, I think Brontë created an archetype that has lived on — the brooding, possessive self-made man type.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

With his gym clothes, cross necklace, floppy hair, and singular fixation on linking all of his efforts and successes to his faith, the 19-year-old Pittman looked like the archetype of the Southern Christian sports bro.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2026

“I Love LA” never lets Maia fully inhabit that archetype, nor does it have her reject hustle culture.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2025

To evaluate a dog’s alterations, said Packer, consider how much it deviates from the original archetype: the wolf.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

The new warehouse chief looked like the Englishman archetype Obinze carried in his mind, tall and spare, sandy-haired and blue-eyed.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie