EFFIGY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for EFFIGY, such as:

1. The mob showed its irritation by hanging the judge in effigy.
2. I have no doubt, for example, that the Fernworthy people will burn me in effigy tonight.
3. For all they cared it might have been me, instead of my effigy, which these rascals burned at the stake.

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 Meanings and Examples of EFFIGY
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effigy
 n.  crude figure or dummy representing a hated person or group; likeness or image, especially of a person
Classic Sentence:
1  I have no doubt, for example, that the Fernworthy people will burn me in effigy tonight.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
2  For all they cared it might have been me, instead of my effigy, which these rascals burned at the stake.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
3  He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
4  He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not put anything in its place.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
5  It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
6  "You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb," she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
Example Sentence:
1  The mob showed its irritation by hanging the judge in effigy.