Example sentences for: synonym

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

  • The Annals of Internal Medicine , organ of the American College of Physicians, abandoned the possessive form totally in 1988, protesting that eponyms are inappropriate when a directly descriptive synonym is available.

  • My instantaneous synonym (appropriate for the context in which I had used it) was screed , which he of course understood; I had to explain that megillah is Hebrew and probably entered (American) English via Yiddish.

  • words = terms (synonym) perverse = flag for anagram anagram of `terms' = MSTER the first person = ADAM without = outside (!) ADAM outside MSTER = AMSTERDAM

  • Gedunk appears as a noun in the second edition of the Thesaurus (1953) as a synonym for `ice cream,' suggesting it was derived from the earlier verb [p.

  • Eventually I concluded even the correct word would have become maddening from repetition, unrelieved by a synonym or circumlocution.


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