INCARNATION in a Sentence

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You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCARNATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
incarnation
 n.  person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea
Classic Sentence:
1  At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
2  Of course there is the expression of an official in Pilate and of pity in Christ, seeing that one is the incarnation of the fleshly and the other of the spiritual life.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 11
3  The Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
4  Suddenly he had become almost wistfully moral, seeing himself the incarnation of good, and people like Mellors and Connie the incarnation of mud, of evil.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
6  I had read of such hideous incarnate demons.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  He is such an incarnate hypocrite, that whatever object he pursues, he must pursue crookedly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
8  That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible dictatorship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
9  "Like fiends incarnate," said De Bracy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
Example Sentence:
1  The incarnation of Jesus Christ is a basic tenet of Christian theology.
2  The guards were sadistic beasts and their leader was the devil incarnate.
3  The leader seemed the devil incarnate.
4  The media cast him as the devil incarnate.
5  That enemy officer is a devil incarnate / an incarnate fiend.
6  Depending on who you asked he was a savior or the devil incarnate.