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 idea of killing him is nonsense; the avatar was never alive in the first place.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The player’s avatar, Link, starts on a plateau high above the land of Hyrule.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The idea is a glimpse of an emerging creation economy called direct-to-avatar.
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The main place to display digital purchases is your avatar.
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The metaverse is a term for virtual worlds where people can play games and attend events via a digital avatar.
    — Ann-Marie Alcántara, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Michele is making the case for the suit as the contemporary avatar of gender-fluid fashion.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Feb. 2022
  • She is heard but not seen, while Atkins is rendered, by way of performance-capture technology, as a digital avatar.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 1 Mar. 2022
  • But in doing so, Ree tends to see Mats as an avatar of his own; as less of a person in his own right than an extension of the story the filmmaker is using him to tell.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2024
  • For those who have yet to try VR, this new attention to safety around the issue of virtual groping and personal space for an avatar may be difficult to grasp.
    — Adario Strange, Quartz, 17 Feb. 2022
  • There’s an urgency today that didn’t exist when Miranda assisted customers by phone: Amazon is now the avatar of a monopoly economy.
    — New York Times, 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The flagship liter-class motorcycle features full carbon fiber bodywork and comes in an all-black stealth avatar.
    — New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024

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