How to Use represent in a Sentence

represent

verb
  • The new prices represent a substantial increase over last year's prices.
  • The company is represented by a local law firm.
  • She hired an agent to represent her in the contract negotiations.
  • He represented his company at the meeting.
  • The court's decision represents a victory for small businesses.
  • She represented the United States in figure skating at the Olympics.
  • Senator Smith represents the state of Connecticut.
  • The study at the Chesapeake marsh did in fact represent all plants.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • When is the holiday and what does the Year of the Rabbit represent?
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The two deaths represent the fifth and sixth homicides of 2023 within Pine Bluff.
    — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The players around him make for the most racially diverse team to represent the U.S. in any sport.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The four unions represent more than half of the unionized rail workers.
    — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The yellow represents a region where the kites may spend the winter and where a subspecies of the kite is found year round.
    — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The funding that expires on March 2 represents four of those bills.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
  • These planned hires represent the majority of the use of IRA funds.
    — Cindy McGhee, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Each of the 50 states get to choose two statues to represent them in the Capitol collection.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Claims put forward in a lawsuit represent one side of a case.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The dominos represent the muscles and joints that make up the kinetic chain.
    — Women's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Frederic and Savoie would replace them, and represent an increase in skill and speed, with less of an edge in the case of Savoie.
    — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • The drop represents the first month-to-month decline since October 2024.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • These are all songs that represent a very specific point in time.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The weight of your ecobrick can represent the quality of your building project.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2022
  • Meanwhile, the brown and black stripes represent people of color and people who died of AIDS.
    — Kiersten Willis, ajc, 8 June 2022
  • Yet to the crofters, the spaceport has come to represent their independence.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • In a few of these, wine makes only a cameo appearance, but the songs represent the ways wine fits into our lives.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Brady follows in the footsteps of many former and current Huskies to represent the United States.
    — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2022
  • As one of two at-large positions on the nine-member board, the District 8 seat represents the whole school district.
    — Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The ring has a reversible top and on the alternate top of the ring, the 49 points of rubies represent the number of players who held an active spot on the team.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Each color represents a different ecosystem feature: black for rivers and lakes, pink for wetlands and floodplains, green for rainforests, and purple for grasslands.
    — Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 1 July 2025
  • The factory’s location in the Dong Nai province was chosen strategically for its proximity to apparel and textile production — as well as waste streams — with Vietnam representing the world’s third-largest textile exporter.
    — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 1 July 2025

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