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Example sentences for: referent

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

Cassidy offered an intriguing explanation: the metaphor probably originated in Caribbean folklore, which has it that sea turtles (the referent for caouane in standard French dictionaries) copulate for a hundred days at a time.
As for the Oval Office , it is mostly used when the referent is `authority of the executive branch of the government' to avoid identifying the (incumbent) president personally and to indicate official policy.
The ambiguity probably arose from She/He taught her/him everything she/he knows (about something specified), in which the referent of the second She/he is ambiguous: common sense dictates that it refer to the subject of the sentence, not to the her or him, thus yielding the more reasonable She taught him everything she knows or He taught her everything she knows .
"That book" is the referent, but other nouns rush to and fro like big, scary buses.
The article in the second half of the phrase, both makes the phrase appositional and indicates the upgrading of the referent.