Example sentences for: synonym

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

  • Another complaint is his detailed treatment of the semantics of a word, appropriate, perhaps, to synonym studies in dictionaries (but only too rarely well done there) but telling most readers more than they ever wanted to know about a given handful of terms.

  • Dad's also responsible for making General Custer a synonym for a transvestite.

  • <synonym> PTLD-Post-trns lymphprolif dis synonym>

  • This is very economical of space and involves a clever computer ploy, but it does not provide a particularly useful synonym dictionary, for, as we all know, synonymy in language does not yield to the mathematical law that states, “Things equal to the same thing are equal to each other.”

  • Solution: Replace in the second element (rules word for word) the last three words by their synonym “verbatim.”


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