How to Use incarnate in a Sentence

incarnate

1 of 2 adjective
  • The two are joy incarnate on this song with just the right hint of something sultry.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 July 2020
  • The sweet-natured 10-year-old is a kind of fountain of youth incarnate.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
  • While many denounced him as the devil incarnate, Pritzker stood his ground.
    — Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Spielberg noted that perhaps Jaws was even his own fear of water incarnate.
    — Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • For a few bars, the orchestra stops playing and the anvils hammer away on their own—industry incarnate.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Because Han’s father is the school’s major donor and his mother is a lawyer, he’s allowed to act like evil incarnate.
    — Robert Daniels, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The new Sox southpaw was perfection incarnate through the first 3 2/3, and had a no-hitter through the end of the fourth.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 15 May 2026
  • Then the lights dimmed, and Margaret appeared, incarnate, for the first time since Judy Blume dreamed her up 53 years ago.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The Bauhaus Building, designed by Gropius in 1925, is steel and glass incarnate.
    — Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Noodles are happiness incarnate, and these summer-ready sesame soba noodles are no exception.
    — Elyssa Goldberg, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2023
  • What if your seemingly innocent young child was actually evil incarnate?
    — Josh Bell, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
  • An eight-episode horror/comedy about a woman who’s hesitant to join her friends in motherhood but ends up giving birth to a baby who might be evil incarnate.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
  • As if a prequel to Practical Magic needs any more convincing to cozy up with—this prequel novel is autumn incarnate.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Theo was teenage possibility; MTV was the cutting-edge incarnate.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2025
  • This Editors' Choice award-winning laptop is portable power incarnate and light as its namesake.
    — John Mihaly, PCMAG, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Logwood was chaos incarnate Friday, the 5-foot-9 forward zipping down the court for coast-to-coast finishes after forcing turnovers.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Beelzebub, however, is nothing but evil incarnate, first appearing as a sort of metaphysical pollution—a writhing black oil-like glob suspended in midair.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Brunson’s Janine on Abbott Elementary is sunshine incarnate, a balm in these bad times and a light in the darkest timeline.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2024
  • If Stone is rage incarnate, RZA, as Hutch’s samurai-sword-wielding brother, is pure Zen suavity.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Rugged, confident Ben is manhood incarnate to Willy, who, in his saddest refrain, clings to the threadbare promise of personality like a bit of broken mast in a storm.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
  • While some people viewed Gens as the devil incarnate for working with the Gestapo, others saw him as an angel who intervened between the Germans and the Jews.
    — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
  • After all, Los Angeles is a city that one of its favorite daughters, the writer Eve Babitz, described as eternity incarnate.
    — Chris Wallace, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
  • With respect to gender roles, for instance, the aggressive zombies incarnate a warped and rotted form of traditional masculinity, a perversion of the warrior ideal.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Spielberg and George Lucas conceived of him more as a body in perpetual motion — the adventure-serial spirit incarnate, the human equivalent of a cliffhanger.
    — A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • This released-last-year Bulova timepiece is elegance incarnate — channeling the accessory trends of the 1970s through its mesh bracelet and making a statement with that blue sodalite stone dial.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • As in his previous short films, Jackson plays multiple roles, including the Maestro (the main character), the town's mayor, their evil incarnate, the super ghoul, and most memorably, the moonwalking skeleton.
    — Ime Ekpo, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Colin the Janitor crawling down a hallway with his black tongue wagging at a cowering woman, and the true image of hell incarnate, Pyramid Head, literally ripping the skin suit off of live bodies should shake you to your core.
    — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Falstaff is vitality incarnate — exuberant, excessive, grandiloquent, unashamedly self-preserving, defiant and fleshy, witty and roguish, an addict by personality and addictive to those who can’t help but love him.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Adding more return on the overall investment are the two days leading up to the race, as the experience also includes unfettered entry into the House of Robb at the Wynn, a temporary representation of the magazine incarnate.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2023
  • While Bower is easy on the eyes as Vecna’s human incarnate, Henry Creel, Vecna in full form is a gruesome monster with vascular gray flesh, a decrepit face and piercing eyes — a fitting prince of the Upside Down.
    — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 29 Nov. 2025

incarnate

2 of 2 verb
  • What, if anything, is incarnated again?
    — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Lynn was the complex southern woman incarnate, and nothing expressed that like her songs.
    — Marissa R. Moss, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Her rollout was a tour de force of political action incarnate.
    — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The eloquence of this thought and feeling, incarnated as affect, proves every year to be deathless.
    — Sophie Lewis, Harper's Magazine, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Instead, the scapegoat is demonized, forced to bear and incarnate everyone’s guilt, on top of their own.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • That this strange new arrival is actually the Lord incarnate?
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2021
  • But Alexis never lost his love for the figurines that had incarnated his childhood fantasies.
    — Tom Sancton, Vanities, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Conan struck a note of friendly winning mockery, and made a touching statement at the end of his monologue about the joy and optimism that movies incarnate.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Mar. 2026
  • But has anyone ever done the work of that testament and play it into the thought process of someone writing it, and how to incarnate it, and how to put it into a scene.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Over time, his explanation of himself moved from prophet to Jesus Christ incarnate to God.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • His bass lines seem to incarnate some principle of human resilience, of slapstick durability.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Each of them squares off against the Enemy — incarnated in a white woman of varying age and features, but always dressed in white — with mixed results.
    — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
  • One of the jokes here is that the artist, incarnated as an avuncular soul by Donald Sutherland, has no body of work — at least that anybody’s seen.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • In the version of you that made its way over to American audiences, you were presented as sort of England incarnate.
    — Vulture, 7 Jan. 2022
  • As an art form in which human beings are incarnated, drama is a natural conduit for metaphysics and ontology.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The building incarnated an idea of air travel’s allure that lingered like a contrail in the national imagination.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The digital scale of battle royale was incarnated at the first Fortnite World Cup last weekend in Queens.
    — Jason M. Bailey, New York Times, 30 July 2019
  • Most people drank the beer; a few not-so-subtly slugged from their own bottles of baijiu, a grain alcohol that dates back to the Ming Dynasty and burns like regret incarnate.
    — Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
  • Another is Hemon’s mysterious narrator, who speaks from the future but resides incarnate in these characters.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • But De Shields, a theater eminence both on and off-Broadway, incarnated in his slick style and bluesy sound the spirit of Mitchell’s bewitching score.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 9 June 2019
  • At first glance, the brothers seem to incarnate the classic western divide between wilderness and civilization, a split that films have long represented as a series of endless white-and-black hat struggles.
    — New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The former secretary of state under Richard Nixon has inspired a mountain of biographical studies, some treating him as a hero, others as evil incarnate.
    — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Sparky was incarnated by Berk Anthony, an illustrator who worked for Disney before joining the Navy.
    — Rachel Leingang, azcentral, 20 June 2018
  • With respect to gender roles, for instance, the aggressive zombies incarnate a warped and rotted form of traditional masculinity, a perversion of the warrior ideal.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Ernaux’s signature method of resisting interpretation and incarnating the past plunges us into this girl’s experience.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The almighty God of the universe gave up His seat at the right hand of the Father in heaven to incarnate as a man, and not as a man with any kind of human authority, but as a man who could be pushed in a ditch with no recourse.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 27 June 2021
  • Several times, the president of the jury carried out a bizarre line of questioning that undercut the feminist victory the trial supposedly incarnated.
    — Katie Ebner-Landy, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Mujica Lainez was thus free to imagine a literary Duke of Bomarzo, incarnating the contradictions of his period.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Pyta pursues the theme at magisterial length, showing how Hitler debased the Romantic cult of genius to incarnate himself as a transcendent leader hovering above the fray.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The newspaper presented here is less a particular institution—one that might have specific flaws and foibles—than a towering, idealized fantasy of journalism incarnate.
    — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022

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