How to Use represent in a Sentence

represent

verb

• The new prices represent a substantial increase over last year's prices.
• The company is represented by a local law firm.
• She hired an agent to represent her in the contract negotiations.
• He represented his company at the meeting.
• The court's decision represents a victory for small businesses.
• She represented the United States in figure skating at the Olympics.
• Senator Smith represents the state of Connecticut.
• The study at the Chesapeake marsh did in fact represent all plants.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• When is the holiday and what does the Year of the Rabbit represent?
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2023
• The two deaths represent the fifth and sixth homicides of 2023 within Pine Bluff.
  — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2023
• The players around him make for the most racially diverse team to represent the U.S. in any sport.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• The four unions represent more than half of the unionized rail workers.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• The yellow represents a region where the kites may spend the winter and where a subspecies of the kite is found year round.
  — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
• The funding that expires on March 2 represents four of those bills.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
• The dominos represent the muscles and joints that make up the kinetic chain.
  — Women's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
• Yet to the crofters, the spaceport has come to represent their independence.
  — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
• In a few of these, wine makes only a cameo appearance, but the songs represent the ways wine fits into our lives.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• As one of two at-large positions on the nine-member board, the District 8 seat represents the whole school district.
  — Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 2 Dec. 2024
• The ring has a reversible top and on the alternate top of the ring, the 49 points of rubies represent the number of players who held an active spot on the team.
  — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2024
• Half the room cheers for the Eagles, representing Smith's hometown.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
• The union has come close to representing workers at the VW plant in two previous elections.
  — Tom Krisher, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
• Mejia’s sense of home is what the plaza is meant to represent, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said.
  — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2023
• The studied area represents just 0.08 percent of the entire Amazon.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
• While such an approach might sound like an echo of Steve Jobs, there is nothing techy represented in this watch.
  — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 28 Dec. 2024
• Crypto does not represent a store of value and has too many risks, according to Mr. Stark.
  — Hannah Miao, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2023
• One tricky part is that while growth rings on trees represent years, the growth rings on octopus represent days.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024
• Alexis Bailey, who was the first to take the stand, dropped 114 teal stones into a glass jar to represent each time Fucci stabbed her younger sister.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The plant could later be scaled up to offer up to 1 million acre-feet, which would represent more than a third of Arizona’s share of the Colorado River.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2022
• For Chu, the project represents the break of a lifetime, the opportunity for the film-buff son of immigrant parents to make his own elaborate saga and, eventually, to meet a hero or two.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 2 Jan. 2025
• Venuti’s fifty choices represent a fraction of Buzzati’s total output in the form, written over a period of forty years.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024