Sentence examples for almost a homonym from inspiring English sources

It's almost a homonym, I think.

Ad homonym attacks begin appearing all over the place on the victims of these crimes.

The word for crab, hie xie, is a homonym for harmonious, we are told, and much bandied about in Chinese government circles.

Nian gao is a homonym for "higher year".

Not exactly a homonym problem, but a mix-up nonetheless; we presumably meant "communion" wafers.

So he called her Ruonan, a homonym for "like a boy".

A mistake I made recently had me reading this one twice: "A homonym is a word like another in sound and spelling but different in meaning: Bark (outside covering of a tree) and bark (the sound dogs make) are homonyms.

The families formed a new group, known as Eevfam – a homonym for the local word for bloodstain.

The two syllables shenzhou also form a homonym for an old-fashioned romantic term for China as the "magical land".

His centre is known among its employees as "the Cos", which is both an acronym and a homonym.

The novel follows the misadventures of Jun Do, a North Korean everyman whose name is a homonym for John Doe.