Example sentences for: trope

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

  • 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.

  • My Russian contact used to call me simply Zorrp, which I found pretty much to the point, and a Hungarian colleague settled for Trope.

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

  • 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.

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


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