Example sentences for: associative

How can you use “associative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • and it is not till we get to the end, where a dozen styles are listed that there is any sense of semantic or associative grouping.

  • To hold that psychology--even physiology--has no relationship to grammar seems overbearing to me, for experience has a great deal to do with how we use and understand language, which I consider highly associative.

  • Findings are associative, not causative, and risk cannot be assigned without the ability to control for other variables prospectively during the course of the study.

  • Tim Weiner, who wrote the Times piece, wonders whether bumfuzzled has at least some associative link to the British slang term bumf , a shortened version of "bumfodder ," or toilet paper.

  • The Carter years were represented in Safire's column by a series of associative wordplays--"Billygate," "Waterquiddick," "peanutgate," "Koreagate," and--most significantly--"Lancegate."


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