How to Use archetype in a Sentence

archetype

noun

• Kaia Gerber had a brief dalliance with the bombshell archetype this week.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2024
• The series changes archetype from episode to episode, at Wanda’s only partly conscious whim.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2021
• In these pages, Agnew is depicted as an archetype of Trump’s hard-right slash-and-burn style of politics.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• The character is an archetype for every great black artist who was forced to compromise with, or exploited by, white-run businesses.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 31 Dec. 2020
• Those who believe in this archetype tend to ascribe political success to personal character and will.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2021
• These co-creators can be broken down into three main archetypes: Employees, alliances and benefactors.
  — Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• The lead actors really had to make viewers care about them as people rather than archetypes, especially when the movie flips our assumptions about who is the killer and who is the prey.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
• Jay Carney, one of President Barack Obama’s press secretaries, is the archetype.
  — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
• One example given is the Aunt Jemima brand and logo, a depiction of an older Black woman based on the archetype of a mammy.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 1 Mar. 2021
• The 2024 Emmys singled out another beloved TV archetype on Sunday: the cop.
  — Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2024
• In many respects, Mr. McDonald was the archetype of the noble corporate whistleblower.
  — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• Each archetype provides some intriguing options to fill out the Orioles’ infield, and Hyde is right in that the internal options might hold some worthy solutions as well.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• The only casting misstep is Schwarzenegger, who perfectly fits the arrogant, good-looking archetype but happens to look his actual age, which is 27.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2021
• 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
• At the heart of the film are two young men who are riffs on gangster-film archetypes.
  — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
• The characters feel like they’ve been plucked from a book of archetypes.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
• Sheriffs have dined out on this archetype for years and years.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 16 Feb. 2018
• Just as Libras are known to be the 'artist,' Scorpios have their own archetype: The Shaman.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• Joe sees them from far away and judges them and recognizes the archetype.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2023
• And as the archetype wavered, its pop-culture avatars got weird.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 17 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• Archie had some of the power of an archetype because there were so many like him.
  — David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021
• Over the past couple of years, the mean-girl archetype has expanded.
  — Jasmine Arielle Ting, Teen Vogue, 2 May 2018
• The difference is that Trump is the modern male archetype.
  — Laura McGann, Vox, 31 May 2018
• There was a time when Allen was the archetype of the young QB in over his head against a Belichick defense.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2022
• Each of the four members of the Monkees was chosen to fill a certain archetype.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024