Example sentences for: signified

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

  • A reasonable question is whether or not the periodicity signified by the outcome of an autocorrelation treatment can occur by chance alone.

  • However, in German, French, and Dutch, pony (or pony hair ) has always signified that hairstyle, even long before the ponytail came into fashion.

  • This led to civil war and the despotic rule of Octavian, nephew and heir of Julius Caesar whose new title of Augustus Caesar signified the collapse of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire in 27 b.c.

  • "Jesuitical" originally signified "of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit" ( OED , again), the Jesuits being the Roman Catholic clerical order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 as an intellectual bulwark against the Reformation.

  • The comparison signified that two ideas or objects did not go together at all, because if someone hits you on the eye with the fist, it would, obviously, hurt very much.


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