Example sentences for: connote

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

  • ' In some contexts the word can connote `secrecy and deception,' a diversion tactic , for example.

  • Even flirting implies a cavalier attitude which may be innocuous, but which also may connote a lack of sincerity.

  • The saying Traduttore traditore expresses the idea that no matter how gifted a translator is, he can never truly convey the subtle nuances and meanings behind the original language, the many-layered associations and allusions that the words in the original connote.

  • As for schnoz , it does sound Yiddish, there does exist a verb schneitzen `to blow one's nose,' and the shn - combination does connote something to do with the nose; but there is no word shnozzle in Yiddish, only noz or, in the alternate dialect, nuz . Phudnik is not a Yiddish word but was clearly formed on the Yiddish root -nik , which also occurs in Slavic.


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