The camera, filming from below, turns him into an icon of military rectitude.

She is a singer whose fame and post-revolutionary exile from the public eye have turned her into a national icon.

What has been a symbol of unlovely urban survival would turn into a self-conscious icon.

Pol heard the inflection that turned the word into an icon, and he agreed with her.

Assertive nationalist and martial forces sought to turn him into an icon as "the last of the Anzacs."

Many other feminists, however, were troubled by the attempt to turn the hysteric into a feminist icon.

What we've done with technology is to turn it into an icon that people worship or they fear.

The water tank is turned into an icon.

Aashiqui turned Roy into an icon for the youth.

By the 1970s, manga readers and college students across Japan would turn the character into an icon.