How to Use archetype in a Sentence

archetype

noun
Definition of archetypenext
Synonyms for archetypenext
  • Princess Peach is the archetype of the damsel in distress.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Since his childhood, he has been drawn to the archetype of the priest.
    — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The girlboss wasn’t the first time a boss archetype was put on a pedestal.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • This is the archetype, the ye olde, your classic ball drop.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Sheriffs have dined out on this archetype for years and years.
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 16 Feb. 2018
  • At the heart of the film are two young men who are riffs on gangster-film archetypes.
    — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Joe sees them from far away and judges them and recognizes the archetype.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Archie had some of the power of an archetype because there were so many like him.
    — David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021
  • The characters feel like they’ve been plucked from a book of archetypes.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
  • And the vast scope of the show means that there is not enough space made for the historical archetype.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 3 Nov. 2017
  • And as the archetype wavered, its pop-culture avatars got weird.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 17 June 2021
  • Out of this divide, a new archetype of leader has emerged.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 3 May 2018
  • The difference is that Trump is the modern male archetype.
    — Laura McGann, Vox, 31 May 2018
  • Our film has plenty of archetypes and references to the book’s myths.
    — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Over the past couple of years, the mean-girl archetype has expanded.
    — Jasmine Arielle Ting, Teen Vogue, 2 May 2018
  • The archetype is an investor who has borrowed to fund his purchase and has his loan called.
    — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Each of the four members of the Monkees was chosen to fill a certain archetype.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
  • In other words, the podcast bro archetype is very real.
    — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 11 July 2023
  • Its sequel is destined to be the archetype of something else: the daughter game.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 12 June 2020
  • Joseph is an alternative to both of these dad archetypes.
    — Joelle Monique, Teen Vogue, 9 Jan. 2019
  • This archetype has a big vision, charisma and plenty of great ideas.
    — Yec, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Republic is the archetype of what a modern record label should be.
    — Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Taking that kind of archetype, the big guy, the big Teddy bear who likes to blow stuff up.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 3 May 2021
  • But Despentes deploys the archetype much as the men before her have done.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
  • In many ways, his childhood fits the archetype of a rural upbringing.
    — Grace Oldham, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2020
  • And because the film is little more than an action-movie archetype, the mind tends to wander.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Dried sedum, with its billowing seed head, looks like the archetype of a leafy tree.
    — Michael Tortorello, New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • But being human is much more complex than any archetype.
    — refinery29.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Anyway, that shorthand is just to describe the archetype of a guy like that who’s a boy genius.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Bale is somehow too even-keeled to dip firmly into an archetype.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023

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