Sentence examples for connotations of a from inspiring English sources

It also avoids the positive connotations of a "yes" answer.

When applied as a critical term, he adds, it carried "connotations of a lean, fit republicanism".

The X6 M appears streamlined yet brutally muscular and without the military connotations of a Hummer.

Even the name given to the guerrillas, "bushwhackers," carried connotations of a different kind of fighting — attacks from ambush.

Alternative high schools often carry connotations of a refuge for students who have academic, social or emotional problems.

She also sought to counter the negative connotations of a new and frightening disease then associated principally with gay men.

MegaMail, with its connotations of an unstoppable avalanche of virtual messages, was definitely out.

Internal-affairs files that scrutinize what a police officer did by the authority of his or her badge do not have the personal connotations of an employment application, a tax form or a request for medical leave.

The use of the term "falsification", with its connotations of an exact hypothesis that can be decisively falsified by a single or even a few negative findings is problematic.

To me and most of the Marines I know the mere word carries with it connotations of being a narc, a snitch, and even a traitor.

To me and most of the Marines I know the mere word carries with it connotations of being a narc, a snitch, and even a traitor...