Each one represents a person or place related to the story.
But we both knew that each pair represented a person who had died here at the hospital.
The toy can represent a person, an animal, or anything else.
"There is no way you can represent a person or a business that doesn't have some dealings with the state," he said.
They may represent a person, a place, a bank account, a table of data, or any item that the program has to handle.
A bit like you can represent a white person without being white yourself.
The figures represented persons who are believed to have made significant contributions to law and justice.
The question of how far the characters are meant to represent actual persons has been much discussed.
A ghost represents a dead person, who by definition has failed to find eternal life.
They represent persons whose lives are touched by adoption or other loss of family continuity.