symbols

Example Sentences

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It’s layered with symbols — the Eye of Horus, a hand, a bird.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

About 5,200 years ago, people in what is now Iraq and Syria began pressing symbols into clay to record information.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

As a system of symbols with its own particular language, astrology can help some people make sense of emotions and events, bringing a semblance of structure to the apparent chaos of everyday life.

From Slate • May 5, 2026

That is certainly true of Quincy’s statues of Florian and Michael, who have long been symbols of the heroism and sacrifice of firefighters and other first responders.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

When you start stringing symbols together to get equations, you can wind up with something unexpected.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife