Sentence examples for as figures from inspiring English sources

Presidents act as figures who symbolize what their supporters hold sacred about the nation, or what their opponents most hate.

You can refer to tables and charts as Table 1, 2, 3, etc. or as figures.

Yet investors act on fear as well as figures.

Defence ministers simply describe all estimates put them as figures they "do not recognise".

And so some of the early works depict clowns as figures commanding reverence.

See how the numbers have changed — as figures and as percentage of GDP.

Tellingly, both productions feature Supremes-like trios who pop up as figures of fantasy.

They remain as remote and two-dimensional as figures from the pages of an encyclopedia.

The Vedic gods lost importance in these texts and survive as figures of folklore.

In interviews, the choristers are often arrayed as carefully as figures on an album cover.

"External visitors to schools will be regarded as figures of authority, particularly by younger pupils.