Sentence examples for become code from inspiring English sources
The word melodrama has become code for something the art-house crowd will despise.
The Associated Press's Deb Riechmann explained that "unipolar has become code for overwhelming U.S. power".
The truth is that "drawing lessons" has become code for celebrating victory.
Mr. Morris is probably right that in the public mind "adventurous" has become code for "contemporary music".
("Religious liberty" and "religious freedom" have become code on the campaign trail for opposition to gay marriage).
The top has become code for the way in which you live your life: tan first, work second.
Mr. Gaultier might have been talking about the spirit of his own creations — like a riding coat suit — that have now become codes of his image.
"Crazy" became code for "interesting" and "courageous" and "worth knowing".
The habit spread, and 420 became code for fun time among potheads worldwide.
To conservatives, such liberation was in fact a kind of bondage: "social justice" became code for "liberals who abandon the Bible and embrace atheistic Big Brother".
Defending Christianity as a vital part of our national identity easily becomes code for defending Britain against Muslims, just as attacking religious belief in general neatly fits alongside a hostility towards Islam.
