Example sentences for: nuance

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

  • 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.

  • In the frame game, nuance is almost always a loser.

  • But the author's understanding of psychology has developed a greater degree of nuance.

  • Having lived here my entire life, I find Ferrigno's premise offensive and his point of view so lacking in humor, nuance, balance, and perception, that, were I a subscriber, I would drop Slate in a second!


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