Example sentences for: connotations

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

  • In the last analysis, it makes little difference how sterile, clinical, or innocuous the words selected might be, for the terminology attracts adverse connotations owing to many factors, not the least of which is prejudice.

  • Miniskirts withdrew from such sweaty connotations, emphasizing instead their harmony with classic jackets.

  • But used with words with unfavorable connotations, it assumes a pernicious meaning of make-believe, for example, “Is that still his story?”

  • And even nowier, it means Dutch auction, which has dismal connotations, but so does everything with a Netherlandish prefix--Dutch treat, Dutch courage, Dutch Schultz.

  • Once everybody goes in for length, let's give it about three years--the same period as between 1922 and 1925, say--and then expect another rise, with other connotations.


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