Sentence examples for as a totem from inspiring English sources

It was also seen as a totem to ward off evil.

Weighty and capacious, they nudged aside the canvas backpack as a totem of hipster chic.

He served, perhaps, as a totem of what a new chair should aim to accomplish.

A glittering shopping mall with an indoor ice skating rink stands as a totem of American-style consumerism.

She has served as a totem for issues relating to race, class, celebrity, sibling rivalry, family conflict, and body image.

Later came the JM-3 speaker, a more compact powerhouse, which established itself as a totem of seventies rock.

These days, when Hull enters the national consciousness, it is usually as a totem of social deprivation.

By rights, the Second Amendment should serve as a totem of African-Americans' full citizenship and enfranchisement.

The show's attraction was that it highlighted the rise of the camera phone as a totem of cool.

Mr Koons sees the sculpture as a "totem" that is "phallic from the front" but displays "sexual harmony on the side".

(As a totem of East Coast elitism, Martha's Vineyard played a recurring cameo in Fancy Farm, which is named for the fertile acreage of corn and soybeans.