We found 7 examples of how to use connotation in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 7 of 7.
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| 1. | In the first paragraph, she describes the labels she was tagged with, which have a negative connotation. | |
| 2. | For most Americans, "Allahu akbar" fails of the crucial connotation: "And you're not." | |
| 3. | Through both denotation and connotation, many Turkish names are weighty with symbolism. Before the Second World War, the European system of name-giving was adopted, and the people of Turkey chose new surnames for themselves from a list of names which had been created on the basis of etymology and semantics. | |
| 4. | Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes — indeed, deletes — the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. | |
| 5. | Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. | |
| 6. | "There's a very negative connotation about rats, which is kind of sad," she said during a recent visit to her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. | |
| 7. | I was a child who had rats as a pet, so I got over that negative connotation. |