Example sentences for: connotation

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

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

  • I can conclude only that that communicative intention is used to mean both denotation and connotation: but if that is so, then it would seem that the contrast implicit in euphemism is lost.

  • It may be that French, because it so rich in connotation and nuance, is harder to translate than most languages.

  • The gravitational pull of falsity is so powerful that even words and phrases that start out as truth reinforcers tend, over time, to acquire the opposite connotation.

  • Neither muzzle not battery is used with a connotation related to armaments.


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