Sentence examples for symbol may be from inspiring English sources

B1 A Symbol May Be Sold The New York City Board of Education voted unanimously to explore the sale of its headquarters at 110 Livingston Street.

A decision by Johnson & Johnson, the giant health care conglomerate, to sue the American Red Cross last year for commercializing the Red Cross symbol may be turning into a bit of a disaster for the company.

You wonder if that's going to be so evocative of 2008 that when we come out of this, someone looking for a house will see that and say, 'Nah, not interested.' " He added: "Maybe they'll want to say, 'Look at me, I've got full solar and geothermal heating.' I'm pretty positive the next status symbol may be a big house with a zero carbon footprint".

The iPhone's role as a fashion and status symbol may be drawing less engaged users.

But for big private companies with solid revenue and a strong mobile presence, fast-tracking their way to getting their own stock symbol may be a smart bet.

A news feature, for example, may be absence of emoticons and slang words, and presence of a currency symbol may be a feature for deal.

The pronunciation of kanji symbols may be indicated as well by hiragana script.

The symbols may be watercolours or digital icons in the form of morphed isolines or tiny dots.

Blake is not an easy read, and his collection of symbols may be more accessible by intuition than analysis.

Symbols may be broadly classed as planimetric or hypsographic or may be grouped according to the colours in which they are conventionally printed.

In the past few months we've seen Twitter change its "star" icon for favouriting a tweet to a heart, and it's possible other symbols may be added.