IMAGE in a Sentence

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For IMAGE, below is one of 268 sentences:
The images of the dead were all strangers to him save that of uncle Charles, an image which had lately been fading out of memory.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMAGE
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image
 n.  visual representation; representation of a person
Classic Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
1  He returned to Mercedes and, as he brooded upon her image, a strange unrest crept into his blood.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  He did not know where to seek it or how, but a premonition which led him on told him that this image would, without any overt act of his, encounter him.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  He saw her serious alluring eyes watching him from among the audience and their image at once swept away his scruples, leaving his will compact.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  The images of the dead were all strangers to him save that of uncle Charles, an image which had lately been fading out of memory.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  He bore cynically with the shameful details of his secret riots in which he exulted to defile with patience whatever image had attracted his eyes.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  Only at times, in the pauses of his desire, when the luxury that was wasting him gave room to a softer languor, the image of Mercedes traversed the background of his memory.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  The image of Emma appeared before him, and under her eyes the flood of shame rushed forth anew from his heart.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  Every morning he hallowed himself anew in the presence of some holy image or mystery.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  The pride of that dim image brought back to his mind the dignity of the office he had refused.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  Through this image he had a glimpse of a strange dark cavern of speculation but at once turned away from it, feeling that it was not yet the hour to enter it.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  The long slender flattened skull beneath the long pointed cap brought before Stephen's mind the image of a hooded reptile.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  An esthetic image is presented to us either in space or in time.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  But, temporal or spatial, the esthetic image is first luminously apprehended as selfbounded and selfcontained upon the immeasurable background of space or time which is not it.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
16  The initial image projected was of a caring, effective president.
17  A former company executive describes him as the embodiment of Nike's image.
18  One factor thought to have worked in his favour is his working class image.
19  The film exploited his image and infringed his copyright.
20  The financial crash blackened the image of investment for many small investors.
21  The advertisements are intended to improve the company's image.
22  He believes that the product's poor image is partly the fault of the press.
23  His public image is very different from the real person.
24  Champagne houses owe their success to brand image.
25  She had an image of a mad scientist working in his laboratory.
26  He tried to blot out the image of Helen's sad face.
27  His super-clean image gave a veneer of respectability to the new professional set-up.
28  She looked at her image in the mirror.
29  I have an image in my mind of how I want the garden to be.
30  Speech is the image of actions.