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 two deaths represent the fifth and sixth homicides of 2023 within Pine Bluff.
    I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some of the models look like hybrids—koalas crossed with wombats, say—that represent what could’ve been walking around with Noah thousands of years ago.
    Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The second phase of the project is for landscaping and lighting at the site as well as a dozen outdoor touchscreen prayer stations at the site that will represent the 12 tribes of Israel.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The drop in labor action is due to a smaller share of workers represented by unions compared to the 1990's and earlier.
    Sara Chernikoff, The Courier-Journal, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Does the current governing coalition represent the future of the right in Israel?
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
  • In the mural, the painting of a peacock represents her grandparents and a phoenix is a nod to Tsugawa’s Chinese heritage.
    Acsah Lemma, Sacramento Bee, 31 May 2024
  • The idea that the system represents a war between seniors and younger generations is just wrong.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • This preview will examine which team offers the best value to represent the region in the Final Four.
    Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Now the question is whether police represent force or order.
    Elaine Ganley, ajc, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Allegedly telling his lawyers to falsely represent to the FBI and grand jury that Trump did not have documents called for.
    ABC News, 11 June 2023
  • Like the old bosses of Tammany Hall, Adams claimed to understand and represent the working people of the city, in his case meaning Black and brown voters in the outer boroughs.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The data suggests that these acts represented assertions of the superiority and power of white churches.
    William Horne / Made By History, TIME, 17 Oct. 2024

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