Sentence examples for as icon from inspiring English sources

Few words are as overused in our time as "icon" and its variant "iconic".

The Clinton Legacy TODAY -- The president as icon.

The outcome is that she comes across at times more as icon or muse than actress.

On the occasion of the Pie Issue, Mr. Carmellini, 42, spoke about pie as icon and inspiration.

Call it misguided, crude, a craven ploy; whatever else, it represents the evolution of a very particular pictorial vocabulary — the terrorist as icon.

In the end these collections' becoming best sellers around this holiday season may simply be a preternatural happening: the book as icon.

Ms. Gallagher dates the bag-as-icon trend to the rise of Miuccia Prada and to the emergence of must-have bags like the Birkin in the late '80s.

Americans received a primer on shoe-as-icon in 2003, when a handful of Iraqis at Firdos Square used their footwear to beat the fallen head of the statue of Saddam, and a refresher in 2008 when an Iraqi reporter at a press conference threw his shoes at then President Bush.

Singleton has disappeared as an icon as swiftly as she arrived.

Cahill has been reminded that domestic allegiances always outweigh national ones; that his status as icon-in-chief of the Socceroos hasn't protected him from copping stick from one-eyed rival fans, particularly those of Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory.

They also used "weird profiles" of generic faces as icons.