Example sentences for: meanings

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

  • For poets, humorists, and those blessed with fertile imagination, place-names can have other meanings:

  • Perhaps most promising in expanding the range of meanings for one-letter words are variant forms.

  • Preparing a monolingual English dictionary, lexicographers who are native speakers of English may often turn to citations of usage in context to derive or verify senses of some words; but for words whose meanings they already know, they can rely on their own knowledge and use citations for confirmation.

  • As Freud underlined, playing on the multiple meanings of words is an exercise in thrift: two or more meanings for one word or phrase.

  • In essence, this is a versatile two-way bilingual (Russian English) collocation dictionary providing information about how to intensify, heighten, or escalate the basic meanings of nouns on the one hand, and verbs and adjectives on the other, by qualifying them with adjectives and adverbs, respectively.


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