Sentence examples for they represented for from inspiring English sources

For a long time, Mayor said, "Most people argued that the Amazons on Greek vases were purely symbolic — that they represented, for example, young women who weren't yet married".

(Anderson) They Might Be Giants (Saturday) They Might Be Giants are Brooklyn eccentrics of the highest order — they represented for Keep Williamsburg Weird decades ago with the 1990s singles "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" and "Snail Shell".

Read today, Truffaut's piece seems hyperbolic and moralistic, as when he attacks the screenwriters Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost and the school of psychological realism they represented: "For them, psychological realism inevitably requires that men be base, infamous and vile," and "the films they write are even more base, vile and spineless than anything French art has produced to date".

Having seen her exiles off at the pier, Ms. Chamberlain follows their careers in the great exile centers, Prague, Berlin and Paris, and then, in an extended coda, ruminates over the broader significance of the political ideas held by her principal characters, and the possibilities they represented for an alternative Russia.

"They represent for us a level of unrequited love".

In go-go parlance, they "represent" for each other.

The Sanders and Corbyn phenomena differ though in what they represent for their respective parties.

They represent, for me, something that has become a sickness in our society and must be challenged.

They represent for the Israeli right the cherished hope of reclaiming land that belonged to the Jews in biblical times.

But they are powerful fables, and they represent for Hindus what the Bible and the Greek myths together may have historically represented in the West.

True fans stay loyal to these designs for years, whereas the fashion crowd has enjoyed adopting them – and all they represent – for a season or two.