Example sentences for: synonyms

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

  • There are many synonyms, and for the speakers there is the comfort that comes with the freedom to discuss illegal acts in public places.

  • Fifteen is not a lot of senses for take : in the Ox-ford Thesaurus we listed twenty-seven senses for which there were viable synonyms before reaching the phrasal verb section; the phrasal verbs yielded another twenty-five common senses for which synonyms could be adduced.

  • Examples of the kind of data we attach are: functional data such as Gene Ontology (GO) [ 30] term assignments; tracking data such as symbols, synonyms and accession numbers; data relevant to the annotation process, such as curator comments [ 8]; data relevant to the pipeline process, such as scores and expectation values in the case of computed features.

  • The live Columbus, Ohio, town meeting (which became a town beating) sent the pundits scurrying for thesauri to find synonyms for "fiasco" and "disaster."

  • The three synonyms cited in 1974 and repeated in 1981 came from a lexicographer whose mind was fixed in an earlier (19th) century.


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