Sentence examples for a signifier of something from inspiring English sources

It is always a signifier of something, scripted and coded.

Oh, and he banged Madonna when that was a signifier of something.

That word, "dubstep," as words have a tendency to do, has become destabilized in recent years, reworked and remolded to become a signifier of something it never really was meant to be.

To me, that has always been a signifier of something "good": something that takes a while to bury you within its nuances, something rich and satisfying; not something you want to rinse and spit out almost immediately once it becomes stale and starts to sour.

You see, the monophone acts as a very obvious signifier of something that doesn't need signifying.

His name was something to drop into conversation – a signifier of postmodern cool, a wink to the stalls.

The keffiyeh, once a signifier of solidarity with Palestine, now signifies nothing but cool.

But whether his approach to food, as expertly refined by James Gandolfini, was a signifier of mob etiquette, New Jersey style or a form of Italian-American vernacular, is something for gourmands more sophisticated than I am to analyse fully.

It was a signifier of new and disturbing times.

For something so intangible, the @ sign is firmly ubiquitous, part of an estimated 200 billion emails sent every day and a signifier of all parts of our digital lives.

And as much as of nationality, perhaps, it is a signifier of (working) class.