Examples of metonym in a Sentence
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Dworkin, metonym for an outmoded Second Wave stridency?
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Sam Huber, The New York Review of Books, 26 Jan. 2023
Garnering popular acclaim as well as respect from academic historians, the books have helped redefine the 1960s—often popularly a metonym for the left-wing counterculture—as a time also marked by the growing power of conservative political organizing.
—Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2020
Thanks to the 185delAG mutation and its two companions, BRCA has become a metonym of cancer risk for every woman.
—Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2012
Like baby feet, pregnant bodies have become a metonym for antiabortion views.
—Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
In Kitamura’s books, career is frequently a metonym for character.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2021
In so many ways, golf serves as a metonym for power.
—Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 17 June 2021
Within a year, its name was a metonym for excellence in the art of raw fish.
—Pete Wells, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020
This little glass disk designed as corrective eyewear wound up as a comic prop, a universal metonym for wealth and snobbery.
—Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
Sam Huber, The New York Review of Books, 26 Jan. 2023
Garnering popular acclaim as well as respect from academic historians, the books have helped redefine the 1960s—often popularly a metonym for the left-wing counterculture—as a time also marked by the growing power of conservative political organizing.
—Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2020
Thanks to the 185delAG mutation and its two companions, BRCA has become a metonym of cancer risk for every woman.
—Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2012
Like baby feet, pregnant bodies have become a metonym for antiabortion views.
—Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
In Kitamura’s books, career is frequently a metonym for character.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2021
In so many ways, golf serves as a metonym for power.
—Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 17 June 2021
Within a year, its name was a metonym for excellence in the art of raw fish.
—Pete Wells, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020
This little glass disk designed as corrective eyewear wound up as a comic prop, a universal metonym for wealth and snobbery.
—Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
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“Metonym.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metonym. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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