How to Use avatar in a Sentence

avatar

noun
  • 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 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
  • Click on your user avatar located at the bottom of the screen.
    Toby Grey, BGR, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The in-game avatar is modeled after a 1990s version of Trejo and voiced by the actor.
    Trilby Beresford, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2022
  • Back then, an array of circumstances drove the rise of Prince George’s as the avatar of the Black suburban dream.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
  • Shauna, to us, felt like our entry point and our avatar of sorts for the audience.
    Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Instead, next to the player's name and number was a generic avatar.
    Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Instead, the shoes will go on the feet of an avatar that walks around a virtual world, such as Nikeland.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Jake remains Khonshu’s avatar, much to the moon god’s delight.
    Tracy Brownstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
  • They are thought of not just as coaches but as gurus, prophets, avatars for particular ideas.
    Rory Smith, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Khan, a Muslim, who has played Hindus and Sikhs on screen, is a prominent avatar for a religiously pluralistic India.
    Thomas Page, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024

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