Iconic

//aɪˈkɒnɪk//

"Iconic" in a Sentence (18 examples)

The view of the Earth from the Moon is one of the iconic images of the 20th century.

The E-type Jaguar was an iconic sports car in the 1960s.

After years of hard work, we finally have reason to believe that these iconic dolphins can be protected against extinction.

In Alaska, where wild salmon is iconic, Copper River fish hold a special status. Their high oil content is linked to their ultra-long migration route from the ocean to their glacier-fed spawning grounds.

Sami said that was a truly iconic moment of his life.

"People really, really need to wake up," said Parisian Veronique Weil, who braved whipping rain to join a climate rally at the city's iconic Place de la République. "The seas are rising, countries are going to disappear. ... It's crazy."

The beret is an iconic French headpiece.

In Kabylie we eat couscous, the iconic dish of kabylie.

One graduate is part of a restoration team at the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, where he's helping to rebuild the 850-year-old landmark after a devastating fire tore through its roof and spire earlier this year.

Most customers who throng to Jaipur’s iconic markets are unaware that many of these attractively priced, glittering bangles are the product of child labor.

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an iconic move in martial arts

And although we’ve certainly seen a variety of blue shades — from periwinkle to cobalt and even Dean Cain’s indigo-washed costume from the 1990’s TV show “Lois & Clark” — Superman’s uniform is still instantly recognizable across generations. In fact, there is only one film — Zack Snyder’s 2013 “Man of Steel” — in which Superman does not wear his iconic red belted trunks.

For younger musicians, Coltrane’s death became one of those iconic events that stays vividly in the mind.

She angrily turned, giving me my favorite view, that iconic view of a woman from the rear.

In time The Simpsons would, indeed, resort to spoofing such decidedly non-spooktacular fare like E.T and Mr. And Mrs. Smith (both in “Treehouse Of Horror XVIII”) but in 1992 the field was wide-open and the show could cherry-pick the most iconic and beloved fright fare of all time.

"We did look at building a new bridge, but this is an iconic structure," says Network Rail Project Manager Michael Bryan.

an iconic gesture in sign language

A portrait of a person is to a considerable extent iconic, but is not completely so since the painted canvas does not have the texture of the skin, or the capacities for speech and motion, […]

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