Example sentences for: trope

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

  • In the rhetoric of American nationalism, the metaphor of the chosen people, of the substitution of Americans for Jews, recurs as a familiar trope.

  • The use of "nature" as a trope for libertarian thought goes back a long way before cyberspace.

  • They show Ellison exploring black folklore as a source for black fiction, using flight, for example, as a metaphor for escape--a common trope among slaves who imagined themselves able to fly back to Africa.

  • Back in New York, Strand started investigating the graphic dynamism at work in the shadows thrown down by the el tracks, and he began seriously investing in the possibilities of the overhead vantage, a Modernist urban trope he would will to Berenice Abbott and sundry Germans and Russians.

  • Today, the personal pronouns my , his , her , their , and our are being deployed before "God" as never before: Such locutions have become a pervasive social trope.


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