symbolically
IPA: sɪmbˈɑɫɪkʌɫi
adverb
- In a symbolic manner.
- By means of symbols or a symbol.
- As symbols or a symbol.
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Examples of "symbolically" in Sentences
- Now I'd like to know why symbolically is in quotation marks and as is in bold.
- His letting go of the Ring title symbolically released his lineal claim as well.
- Lady Chatterleys husband, symbolically, is impotent in the actual physical sense.
- Byron uses the word symbolically for Venetian commerce.] [383] [Pierre is the hero of Otway's _Venice Preserved_.
- And she's not the first to get her "woman" chevrons ripped from her sleeves and her sword symbolically broken over it.
- So someone doesn't think of this as "God" do we really have to sprain ourselves because someone can't view the word symbolically?
- The emergence in the early years of the past decade of what has continued to be called symbolically the Group of 77, but which is now composed of 119 countries, can be considered in the strict sense as a real sign of the times.
- In my opinion, this transcends the Obama phenomenon (though that is certainly both proximate and contributory), and, in this sense, is potentially a very healthy harbinger, if not one without pain across the spectrum (including, perhaps especially, for all of the "Clintons"--in this case, I use that designation symbolically--of the world).
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