How to Use synonym in a Sentence

synonym

noun

• The synonym, on the other hand, plays well with others.
  — Leah Eskin, charlotteobserver, 7 Sep. 2017
• Resetting the line of scrimmage is a synonym for stopping the run.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2020
• The region has been a synonym for remote for centuries.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019
• Clive Davis’ name is a synonym for the ultimate record man.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
• The phrase has been popularized as a synonym for a paradox.
  — Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2018
• It is sometimes used as a synonym for uncouth or a simpleton.
  — David Luhnow and Juan Montes, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
• But White in this context is a synonym for awkward or uncool.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
• One’s a synonym for Midwestern, and — in the minds of many — the other might as well be.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
• The very name Scrooge has become a global synonym for stingy or miserly….
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• The word is a whimsical synonym for fate, the unpredictable forces that lead people to their destiny.
  — Rachel Syme, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• Fan, we are told frequently, should not be a synonym for customer.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• The word itself has become a synonym for something that is real and tangible.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2017
• In countless languages and religions, breath is a synonym for life, as well as for the spirit or soul.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• Even the casual use of the term refugee on the streets of Warsaw as a synonym for Ukrainian was noteworthy.
  — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 May 2022
• This is what the app economy, often a synonym for the new economy, demands.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 30 July 2019
• The danger is thus acute of Agile becoming a synonym for cost-cutting.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• The greatest misused word is encryption, which is often used as a synonym for anonymization.
  — Sonal Rattan, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• Except that the word impossible is now a synonym for challenging.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Recession is a word, which is loosely, and wrongly, used as a synonym for slowdown.
  — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 26 Apr. 2020
• The name also is a relative synonym for the dam, Strong Incentive.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2021
• Never mind that its title is a synonym for rubbish, and evokes images of teeming garbage dumps and the overstuffed closets of hoarders.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• In fact, a synonym in Italian for tuorlo (yolk) is rosso (red).
  — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2019
• Who would have thought that the structures poor seamen once built to house their families would be today a synonym of opulence and luxury?
  — Stav Dimitropoulos, House Beautiful, 22 June 2021
• If that term seems overused today, the short’s title provides both a case study and a clunky synonym for the year’s trendiest accusation.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
• For a long time, being Mapuche was a synonym for mockery and their suffering was regarded as something in the past.
  — Jeffrey Sipe, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021
• The word is even used as a synonym for a kind of drab ordinariness that’s definitely to be avoided in our colorful times.
  — Emily Heil, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
• Asylum is a synonym of refugee status that is used to refer to people who are seeking refuge at a country's border or when already inside of it.
  — Luis Mancheno, CBS News, 8 June 2018
• Astronaut could become a synonym for wealthy, and spaceflight for luxury.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2021
• And what about berserkers, the legendary Viking fighters whose fury in battle turned them into a synonym for insanity?
  — Andrew Curry, National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2017
• Another synonym, torpor, is rooted in the idea of numbness or sluggishness.
  — Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024