Example sentences for: nuance

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

  • 9 spot: "Peppers his speeches with words such as groovy and outasight .") A nuance that the future may not always appreciate, though, is how ironic or playfully self-conscious its usage usually was.

  • , nuance words, and how to use the colon, semicolon, dash, and parentheses.

  • Some of them are real gems: tableur (`tabular operator') for `spreadsheet' is concise, precise, and original; baladeur (`stroller') for `walkman,' although basically a loan translation, adds a fresh nuance to the imagery; best of all perhaps is ordinateur for `computer,' the French term (current since the 1960s, adopted by the Dictionnaire in 1983) meaning something like `methodically arranging agent.

  • It may be that French, because it so rich in connotation and nuance, is harder to translate than most languages.

  • Cutest nuance noted: The "Delay Delay"--the amount of time it takes for Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert to figure out whether he finds something President Clinton says should be applauded or not, so-called because apparently the key step in the speaker's process is being able to see what the House Whip thinks.


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