CONNOTATION in a Sentence
Learn CONNOTATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for CONNOTATION, such as:
1. That word has strong sexual connotations.
2. The notion of abuse has wider connotations than the physical.
3. The turbulent voices, even Guy Pollock being connotative beside her, were nothing.
4. In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation.
2. The notion of abuse has wider connotations than the physical.
3. The turbulent voices, even Guy Pollock being connotative beside her, were nothing.
4. In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation.
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Meanings and Examples of CONNOTATION
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connotation
n. an idea that is implied or suggested
n. what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
Classic Sentence:
1 The turbulent voices, even Guy Pollock being connotative beside her, were nothing.
2 These details communicated to the document a certain air of freshness, they seemed to connote that the peasants in question had lived but yesterday.
Example Sentence:
1 In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation.
2 The notion of abuse has wider connotations than the physical.
3 That word has strong sexual connotations.
4 A dictionary will always give us the denotation of a word; frequently, it will also give us the connotations.