incarnate

in a sentence

It is John that explicitly introduces Jesus as God incarnate.  (source) Gospel - Wikipedia

He's enjoying this, I thought bitterly, he's imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

And truly Buck was the Fiend incarnate, raging at their heels and dragging them down like deer as they raced through the trees.  (source) Jack London, The Call of the Wild, 1903

Drawn by the fascination of the horror of pain and, from within, impelled by that habit of cooperation, that desire for unanimity and atonement, which their conditioning had so ineradicably implanted in them, they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh, or at that plump incarnation of turpitude writhing in the heather at his feet.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should have shunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that is bright but antipathetic.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

He played all over the central part of the state, and Ty and I saw him in all his incarnations—flannel shirt and boots, tux, blue suit, black leather jacket.†  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

But I wouldn't have had to get incarnated in an American body if I hadn't met that lady.†  (source) J. D. Salinger, Nine Stories, 1953

For just as the figure of this girl had been enlarged by the additional symbol which she carried in her body, without appearing to understand what it meant, without any rendering in her facial expression of all its beauty and spiritual significance, but carried as if it were an ordinary and rather heavy burden, so it is without any apparent suspicion of what she is about that the powerfully built housewife who is portrayed in the Arena beneath the label 'Caritas,' and a reproduction of whose portrait hung upon the wall of my schoolroom at Combray, incarnates that virtue, for it seems impossible, that any thought of charity can ever have found expression in her vulgar and energetic face.†  (source) Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, 1913

Of them standing among them, one lifts to the light a west-bred face, To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and father's, His first parts substances, earth, water, animals, trees, Built of the common stock, having room for far and near, Used to dispense with other lands, incarnating this land, Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love, Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits, Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him, Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes, Columbia, Niagara, Hudson, spending themse†  (source) Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855

I felt disincarnate, cut loose from myself.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

I could feel at work within me a miraculous disincarnation;†  (source) Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, 1913

Even in its first primitive incarnation, the scope of the simulation was staggering.†  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

I had read of such hideous incarnate demons.  (source) Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, 1846