Words similar to rebus

Example sentences for: rebus

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

He is fully aware, too, of the very ancient tradition of the rebus, the pictorial pun.
When I look across the page at the Latin I see rebus veneriis , which looks more like sexual love--but it's a long time since I studied Latin, and I may be wrong.)
Like the early flags, these elements got reworked in a variety of media and a range of combinations--as though if the right combinations were found, the rebus might be decoded (though, of course, it never is).
They involve Dada nose-thumbing, Expressionist brio, an American appreciation of pure funk, a flâneur 's eye for chance and juxtaposition in the streets, a sensualist's feeling for the most outré kinds of texture, and a scopophiliac's unquenchable thirst for images, all kinds, right now, from industrial logos to comic strips to postage stamps to Velázquez's Rokeby Venus . (He also, incidentally, has quite an ear, capable of doing more with a one-word title-- Rebus , Currency , Interview , Barge , Express --than most writers.)