totemic

Example Sentences

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"These things that I have built are totemic creatures but also prayer for the existence and continuation of the existence of creatures and insects."

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

For his followers, Nemtsov is a totemic figure in Russian political life -- seen as a once-future leader who might have taken the country on a different path.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

He didn’t have the totemic, darkly glamorous style of Robert Mapplethorpe but one more intimate, more dependent on human connection and contingency, even as he remained meticulous in his pursuit of the perfect shot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

The Sycamore Gap wasn't a particularly ancient tree, nor a native species, but its position gave it a totemic status.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2025

Interspersed amid these totemic items were stray Q-tips and cotton balls, lip liners, Max Factor eye makeup, mascara, blush, and everything else I used in a losing battle to make myself beautiful.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides