Example sentences for: designation

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

  • In 1968, all sports were square and right-wing, unless you considered Frisbee a sport instead of its traditional designation, "nuisance."

  • The other is of the newer, playful genre, often referred to as “cryptic”; but this designation is by no means universal.

  • In part, that is attributable to the designation of his correspondents, who keep him informed on language that is not within earshot, as the “Lexicographic Irregulars,” an amusing reference the first time or two it was used but now beginning to cloy.

  • The Washington Post leads with Iraq's designation of certain areas as off-limits to U.N. inspectors.

  • Acheson had given an M-C-1 to Adlai's designation of McCarthyism before the press club as a "hysterical form of putrid slander" and as "one of the most unwholesome manifestations of our current disorder."


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