How to Use avatar in a Sentence

avatar

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  • She chose a penguin as her personal avatar in the chat room.
  • She has come to be regarded as an avatar of charity and concern for the poor.
  • The film showcases the Malayalam star in an unseen avatar.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • After a couple of minutes, my avatar, which ended up looking like a paper-doll version of me, was ready to try stuff on.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • And a late scene, with avatars screaming and searching for one another among other players, brings grandeur to this story’s small-scale plight.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Strip the mask of the avatar away, reveal the face behind it as a politician with his own ethnic axe to grind—there goes his credibility.
    — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • People who want to sing, but have some issue about being onstage as themselves, stand backstage and belt out tunes while a video game-style avatar performs.
    — oregonlive, 28 Sep. 2021
  • As for top recording artists having their own personal avatar has also become a form of self-expression and a new avenue for fan engagement.
    — Akash Nigam, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The whole process has been fascinating, from the scans to creating my very own virtual avatar, existing in a universe created by me, is wild.
    — Hanna Flanagan, PEOPLE.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • In Asimov’s time, people couldn’t have imagined how artificial agents could use online communication tools and avatars to deceive humans.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Hair is a character of its own in Our Kind of People, an avatar of a Black woman's journey with experimentation.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Allure, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The player’s avatar, Link, starts on a plateau high above the land of Hyrule.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The avatars will be sold for 100 SAND each and released in three waves.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 27 May 2023
  • The avatar looked cheap and flat — and the internet took note.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The idea of killing him is nonsense; the avatar was never alive in the first place.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The avatar belongs to a colleague, or worse, your boss.
    — Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 8 June 2022
  • The text is displayed as a short blurb over a user's avatar.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The games on the site allow kids to create an agent avatar, and then to go on quests to try to play it.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
  • An avatar of Howells was at the center, with a pickaxe and a bag of gold.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • To many of the young men who flocked to Trump in record numbers, Musk was an ideal avatar.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Wallace Rob Portman, to me, is the best avatar for why the country is at risk.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
  • He and his cartoon avatar dressed in red long johns and a Napoleon bicorne hat.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Watch the trailer above, and get a closer look at Bieber's avatar in the poster below.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The best part for Klum is that players can be creative with their avatars.
    — Adriana Lee, WWD, 3 Oct. 2024
  • But Bryant is quick to say that Lady Bri is an avatar, not her true self.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022
  • An avatar plays the trombone while the player moves their mouse up and down to sync with pitches on the screen.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Kiss fans will have to wait a little longer to see the band’s first avatar performance.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2023
  • There’s a kind of weird symbiosis, like with an avatar.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2022
  • For one thing, a furry avatar that can close its eyes when my kid does won’t solve a damn thing.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 24 Apr. 2024
  • On the same note, Moon Knight episode 5 also shows how Khonshu chose Marc as his avatar.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Apr. 2022

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