Example sentences for: signified

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

  • While assuring other nations that the vote signified no change in America's commitment to nonproliferation, he told Americans that arms control had suffered a disastrous setback and that the United States was withdrawing from the world.

  • "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.

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

  • 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.

  • "Talmudic" originally signified nothing more than "of or pertaining to the Talmud" ( Oxford English Dictionary ), the Talmud being the postbiblical Rabbinic code of Jewish laws and interpretations that is the source of authority in Orthodox Judaism.


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