Example Sentences

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The Northwest Flower & Garden Festival, running until the eve of Valentine’s Day, has signified the start of Pacific Northwest spring for more than 30 years.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2022

But without truly understanding what the Izett name has signified for more than 80 years, the door was just another door.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 16, 2014

And yet for more than two centuries a commitment to covering foreign news has signified a U.S. news organization's ambition to be taken seriously.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2009

For a century or more, "progress" in penal thinking has signified increasingly humane treatment for criminals, as if punishment were in itself a vestigial barbarity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now that The Times has signified its approval we shall never be surprised to see this become Society's latest hobby.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 by Various