Example sentences for: denote

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

  • Other languages, often regarded as more "primitive" than English, have highly evolved vocabularies for denoting family relationships, so that a single word can denote, say, one's maternal grandfather's sister.

  • Like Italian, Spanish has estro , from the Latin oestrus `gadfly' (English estrus ) to denote artistic inspiration (and female sexual heat), but duende goes further.

  • The hybrids they denote may be mocked, denounced, enjoyed, or ignored by teachers, linguists, and the media, but regardless of censure or praise they just steamroller on.

  • I once thought that most languages would have separate words to identify and denote eyebrows, eyelids, and eyelashes, features about as easily and objectively observed as ears or lips.

  • Detailed information on the 7 components identified to denote internal validity and quality of a study were abstracted and scored.


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