Example sentences for: connotation

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

  • The connotation of gifted artistic performance, however, might stem from the gypsy culture in Andalusia whose dialect, caló , has words like duquende (possibly from the Russian dook ) meaning `spirit or ghost,' and duquendio , meaning `maestro.

  • If not rhetorical, the same question would have no such conspiratorial connotation.

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

  • Groove also had a vulgar sexual connotation, which could likewise give in the groove the connotation of high performance and pleasure.

  • , niveous/ snowy, lutaceous/muddy ), or in connotation ( maternal/motherly ). [This matter is discussed at some length in the Introduction to my Oxford Thesaurus .]


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