How to Use avatar in a Sentence

avatar

noun
  • She chose a penguin as her personal avatar in the chat room.
  • She has come to be regarded as an avatar of charity and concern for the poor.
  • Not only does the water bottle get shipped to the user in real life, their avatar now has a digital copy to carry around.
    Worth Sparkman, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
  • In Walz, Harris found a reliable avatar who placated most of the Democratic Party’s blocs.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The avatars will be sold for 100 SAND each and released in three waves.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 27 May 2023
  • The avatar looked cheap and flat — and the internet took note.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The text is displayed as a short blurb over a user's avatar.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The games on the site allow kids to create an agent avatar, and then to go on quests to try to play it.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Wallace Rob Portman, to me, is the best avatar for why the country is at risk.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
  • He and his cartoon avatar dressed in red long johns and a Napoleon bicorne hat.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • An avatar plays the trombone while the player moves their mouse up and down to sync with pitches on the screen.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Kiss fans will have to wait a little longer to see the band’s first avatar performance.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2023
  • There’s a kind of weird symbiosis, like with an avatar.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2022
  • For one thing, a furry avatar that can close its eyes when my kid does won’t solve a damn thing.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Click on your user avatar located at the bottom of the screen.
    Toby Grey, BGR, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Back then, an array of circumstances drove the rise of Prince George’s as the avatar of the Black suburban dream.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
  • Then in May, Teams users gained the ability to attend meetings as a 3D avatar.
    Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 21 July 2023
  • Three out of these four avatars are political activists of some kind, and the fourth avatar is dead.
    Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Since Viard took the reins, Stewart seems to have emerged as a sort of avatar for the brand, almost bigger than the designer.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Oct. 2022
  • But then there’s that Luca Guadagnino avatar to the right, all arched eyebrows with a finger to the temple.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Coach will bring three of these worlds into the immersive and social avatar space.
    Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 18 July 2024
  • But the avatar’s flat, cartoonish look was roundly mocked.
    Kevin Roose, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Buying clothes or custom skins for your avatar is nothing new to gamers.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 June 2022
  • The avatar would be able to move and show expression when his own facial muscles no longer could.
    Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 26 July 2022
  • And for those who couldn’t make the Madison Square Garden show — stay tuned, because a Kiss avatar concert may very well be on the way.
    Maria Sherman, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Under the guise of avatars, the three-member film crew entered this world and made contact with its players.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 22 Apr. 2023
  • This might take the form of the ghost in the machine, whether an avatar unleashed from its human counterpart or an app with a mind of its own.
    Ellen Akins, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Friedman says the money ultimately flows to the owner of the avatar.
    J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Throughout the piece, female rage is explored through Bjork’s and Rosalía’s avatars.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Burnham erased most of his social media posts and replaced his avatar with a photo of the ocean, goosing the furor more.
    Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 13 May 2024

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