Example sentences for: synonyms

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

  • Most of the time, two (or more) words that appear to be “pure” synonyms semantically tend to diverge in application or distribution (e.g.

  • In the discussion of flash in the pan , the terms rifle and musket are used as if they were synonyms.

  • Despite the plethora of synonyms for it, style continues to elude definitions with finesse.

  • Terms such as yadda yadda yadda and blah blah blah have a special utility when the speaker's audience can accurately fill in the blanks--when the terms act not as synonyms for "generic talk" but as command keys, cued to circumstance, that can designate specific information.

  • This raises in my mind bonzer [ bonza, bonser , or bonsa ] which first makes its appearance with the gloss that bulwark of Austral Slanguage, or its synonyms boshter and bosker , all three of which are first recorded in 1903 or 1904.


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