totemic

IPA: tˈoʊtʌmɪk

Examples of "totemic" in Sentences

The "totemic" prohibition in this instance really seems to have a hygienic origin.
The Shard of Glass is just the kind of totemic confidence booster the country needs.
By the 1970s whales had become the "totemic organisms of peaceniks, freaks, and ecoterrorists."
But the stadium also remains a totemic symbol of the ongoing arguments over the legacy of the Games.
In the form, then, in which it is known, the Iroquois organization cannot be called totemic -- whether it was originally such must be left undetermined.
Mr Clegg acknowledged that it was "self-evidently extraordinarily controversial" for the party to back higher fees, given its previous "totemic" policy of abolishing them.
Less randomness and a frantic desire to work in every possible totemic moment from the shows replaced by more focus and seriousness would make The Bardy Bunch a lot funnier.
Some are totemic and tall and lurch like giant insects, but most crouch low and wide and suggest driftwood, bones, weapons, fossils and animals, especially birds—with wings outstretched—crippled or alighting.
Her name has acquired totemic meaning for politicians on the right who have cited her in speeches as a bogeyman, even though she has never and, she promises, will never run for office: "I'm just like, really, am I the scariest thing you can conjure?"