Example sentences for: homonyms

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

  • If meaning is to emerge without ambiguity from a language like English, largely uninflected and having many homonyms and homophones, writers must be able to recognize not just the Parts of Speech but also those peripatetic words that wander from one category to another.

  • She then proceeds to call see physically and see comprehend homonyms, as well as provoke anger and provoke cause, run physical sense and run work, function, and attack physically and attack verbally.

  • In this context, homonym , which is usually defined as a word that is pronounced or spelled like another but having a different meaning, is ambiguous, if not inaccurate, for the implication is that homonyms are different words.

  • Other substitutions do not qualify as either homonyms or homophones, but they are interesting nonetheless.

  • But the recently issued edition is again only a photocopy of the 1925 original, and is maddening in its failure to separate senses through lumping together of English homonyms without explanation (e.g.


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