Example sentences for: connotation

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

  • It keeps the initial capital A and the first two syllables of "A&A" (pronounced "A 'n' A"); it puns on "eon," which implies longevity and stability--a desirable connotation for an insurance-services company, especially one that has just undergone a major and disruptive change; it has a remote but perceptible similarity in sound to "Bain"; and it gives the company a unique, legally protectable, and memorable name, unlike the generic "Combined Insurance" moniker.

  • The terms used here are not immediately transparent: if by communicative intention is meant `denotative purpose, the information the speaker wishes to convey,' unless one views communication in the broadest way, it would seem to me that the definition confuses denotation with connotation; that is to say, whether an expression is euphemistic, neutral, or taboo is a matter of connotation, and the fact that a speaker avoids shit for defecate, move one's bowels , etc., is purely a connotative matter: denotatively (communicatively?)

  • There is a nice touch of political legerdemain here, you'll note, when the first safe(r) changes before our very eyes from having a physical connotation to a socio-political one.

  • From 1804 a person so engaged, as distinct from one who farmed crops--who engaged in agricultural pursuits--was known as a grazier, and from the 1820s such a person occupied a property (with the clear connotation of ownership).

  • While it means simply to `couple or connect,' the connotation is always negative.


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