Example Sentences

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Schmidt’s very presence in North Korea will connote the flash and glamour of information technology, reminding North Korean leaders that a country cannot be truly modern without the Internet.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2013

To readers now over 50, the name of Leopold II of Belgium on the cover of a book will connote one thing�the Congo atrocities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, in a statistical study, the phrase "wage increases" will connote a mere item of expense, but to the wage-worker it will connote happiness.

From The Express Companies of the United States A Study of a Public Utility by Benedict, Bert

The same word will connote any number of different ideas: emotions are displaced from the images to which they belong to names which resemble the names of these images.

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter