"symbol" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Billie Holiday has been many things to many people over the years: matchless jazz singer, poignant symbol, cautionary tale.
- The graves soon became a poignant symbol of the oppression and segregation faced by black New Yorkers at the time of the American Revolution.
- Battle is done over a bizarre game of cricket, which serves not only as the novel's comic counterpoint but also a poignant symbol of the world around them.
- The handsome structure became a poignant symbol of the brief flowering of Western-style liberalism in the prewar era.
- They toppled a bronze statue called "Grief," the poignant symbol of the cemetery, which portrayed a seated and exhausted soldier.
- After her death, JonBenet became for many Americans a poignant symbol of parental manipulation and child exploitation.
- As the youngest known victim of the violence, Iman quickly became another poignant symbol of violent conflict.
- The most poignant symbol of the distinction between Island and City are the captains.
- But even at a distance, there are few more poignant symbols of New York than the Chrysler Building lit up at night.
- To encounter these poignant symbols unexpectedly is most affecting.
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