Example Sentences

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A display board in the lobby denotes who’s in and out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

She notes how use of the term denotes “superior flavor and nutritional content,” offering baladi butter and home-raised baladi meats as examples of products preferred over those imported or factory-farmed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

It denotes licentiousness and lack of control, the actions of a toddler gorging himself on chocolate until he is sick.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025

And just as words and their meaning can impose a certain reality, the opposite also can be true: A word’s connotations can evolve alongside the things it denotes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025

This, Champollion reasoned, very probably also denotes Ptolemy.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan