9 sentences with “represent”

There are many different hieroglyphs used to represent a variety of concepts.

The onomatopoeia "boom!" was used to represent the explosion of the rocket in the illustration.

He boasted of his humble origins and claimed to protect and represent the interests of the common people and merchants.

Anaximander created the first known map of the world that attempted to accurately represent distances and relationships between places.

The 100 lightning bolts that strike the Earth every second, that is, eight million a day, represent more energy than all the electrical generators in the United States combined.

A syllabic alphabet has characters that represent sounds, rather than characters that represent things or concepts. These alphabets are much smaller and less complex than symbolic alphabets.

A tradition of prophets, later remembered as the Prophetic Movement, emerged among certain individuals who sought to represent the poorest and most beleaguered members of the community, calling for a return to the more communal and egalitarian society of the past.

Subsequently, the government created a Plebeian Council to represent the needs of the plebeians, approved the right of marriage between patricians and plebeians, banned debt slavery, and finally agreed that of the two consuls elected each year, one should be a plebeian.

Although they did not represent a truly unified body of thought, the one common Sophist doctrine was that all human beliefs and customs were only habits of a society, that there were no absolute truths, and that it was therefore vitally important for an educated man to be able to argue both sides of an issue with equal skill and rhetorical ability.