Example sentences for: connotations

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

  • Good day has taken on other connotations, depending on its prosodic features (stress pattern).

  • But the word has its own negative connotations.

  • These "breakthrough" paintings, as Rothko himself called them, with their thick layers of paint laid on with big brushes purchased at a hardware store, give the lie to the critic Clement Greenberg's influential claim that Rothko "seems to soak his paint into the canvas to get a dyer's effect and avoid the connotations of a discrete layer of paint on top of the surface."

  • The carpetbaggers' reputation has improved, but the word's negative connotations have spread to cover all ambitious newcomers.

  • Terms such as toilet and lavatory have, like privy , undergone pejoration over the years (that is, their meanings have acquired depreciatory connotations).


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