Words similar to referring

Example sentences for: referring

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

Jones referring to Isaac Sears, said, “His tune is for mobbing; committees and popular meetings are his delight, his greatest pleasure, his hobby-horse.”
I'm referring to Jim VandeHei's article "Bottom of the Barrel" (overline: "Where the GOP is finding its candidates."
The emotion aroused by the closure of Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport Sunday night (to be replaced by the "modernistic marvel" of the huge new airport of Chek Lap Kok) came "close to rivalling the events of a year ago," when the former British colony was restored to China, according to the SCMP . Referring to the old airport's hair-raising, rooftop-scraping approach and its environmental deficiencies, the newspaper said that "the sheer audacity and improbability of the place so perfectly captured the spirit of the city that Hong Kong will seem lost without it."
In his characteristically diverting and obscurely erudite way, Pennington describes this discrepancy between public perception and magnitude of risk by referring to an article on railway accidents published in 1859 by one Dionysius Lardner.
Other common words for prison are bote, meaning “can,” and corre, which is short for “correctional institution,” referring specifically to one in Texas.