How to Use deep structure in a Sentence

deep structure

noun
  • Safran describes the show’s deep structure as a comedy of manners.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • Best all around bet, though, continues to be easing along over deep structure with a spider-rigged spread of live minnows a few feet off bottom.
    — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • In stitching so many of these plays together, Mabou Mines uncovers the deep structures underlying them: the grief and the guilt, the disgust and the difficult love.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Yet in its deep structure, the show is about her own dignity and the difficulty of being both a discerning mind and a desiring body.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The full faith and credit of the United States rest not on this or that grudgingly passed statute, but on a much deeper structure of consensus and cooperation, both political and social.
    — Charles Lane, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 Sep. 2017
  • As a portrait of the deepest structures of American violence, Loaded is an indispensable book.
    — Patrick Blanchfield, New Republic, 11 Dec. 2017
  • But none of those applications get to the deep structure of biology—likely a beacon of future creativity.
    — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Also missing was money for replacement of the Industrial Canal lock at the Mississippi River with a deeper structure.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • How can diversity and inclusion become an enterprise that extends past token gestures into the deep structure of the institution?
    — New York Times, 21 May 2021
  • With the exception of inside linebacker, and possibly cornerback, the two-deep structure has snapped together cleanly during lopsided victories over Akron and Rutgers.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But deep structures of wealth and power do often matter.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • This comes in handy during the colder months when fish are grouped up around a piece of deep structure or in a wintering hole.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • What are the deep structure patterns that recreate your reoccurring problem?
    — Jay Steven Levin, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022

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