Example sentences for: construed

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

  • I said, 'Look, I'm not going to send out something that's terribly important that could be construed as trivial.

  • According to Professor Spevack, the word hint has no connotation of invitation or covert suggestion: it simply means cue or suggestion; but should not be construed in the modern sense of innuendo, or sly, or teasing, which it came to mean by the end of the 18th century.

  • This aspect of language should not be construed solely as a demonstration of knowledge (as in knowing how many symphonies Beethoven wrote, whether Caruso was a tenor or a bass, or being able to hum melodies from Puccini's operas), though that is certainly a reflex of a cultured individual.

  • The Ellen controversy illustrates how easily open homosexuality can be construed as aggression.

  • a real presence of significant being ." Chardin's reader, in his solitary bearing, his grave demeanor, honors this most freighted obligation, which can be construed as an obligation to being itself.


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