How to Use avatar in a Sentence

avatar

noun
  • She chose a penguin as her personal avatar in the chat room.
  • She has come to be regarded as an avatar of charity and concern for the poor.
  • Here's how the avatar worked out for me.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The avatar looked cheap and flat — and the internet took note.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Users can move their avatar around the space using their keyboard.
    — Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The idea of killing him is nonsense; the avatar was never alive in the first place.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Black will return to his blue shirt as Steve, the game's main male avatar.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 June 2026
  • For one thing, a furry avatar that can close its eyes when my kid does won’t solve a damn thing.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 24 Apr. 2024
  • His avatar floated in front of me and handed me a cup of coffee.
    — Sara Castellanos, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
  • WhatsApp had no avatars or pins or passwords.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • What is the movie that just came out that was a great book where everyone lives as an avatar?
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 2 Aug. 2018
  • As if the people were a chorus of the voiceless, and she their avatar.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The best part for Klum is that players can be creative with their avatars.
    — Adriana Lee, WWD, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The camera pans around the space as if the viewer is an avatar inside a video game.
    — Lindsay Weinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2019
  • One performer even did a backflip, which was captured through the avatar.
    — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In one video, her avatar is in a forest, wearing a steampunk-style hat.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • He and his cartoon avatar dressed in red long johns and a Napoleon bicorne hat.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Kiss fans will have to wait a little longer to see the band’s first avatar performance.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Now, flip that to understand what kind of avatar would be a good fit for your business.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • On the days of the anniversary itself, users were not even able to change their avatars.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 9 June 2019
  • More than 10 million gamers tuned in — and had the chance to let their avatars dance to the beat.
    — NBC News, 2 July 2019
  • The same themes are discussed, again and again, through shifting formats and avatars.
    — Zoë Hu, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The player’s avatar, Link, starts on a plateau high above the land of Hyrule.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The games on the site allow kids to create an agent avatar, and then to go on quests to try to play it.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Click on your user avatar located at the bottom of the screen.
    — Toby Grey, BGR, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In the poem, the Clod is an avatar of innocence.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • An avatar of Howells was at the center, with a pickaxe and a bag of gold.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • An avatar plays the trombone while the player moves their mouse up and down to sync with pitches on the screen.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Shauna, to us, felt like our entry point and our avatar of sorts for the audience.
    — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The avatar started to move as if someone was controlling it.
    — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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