Sentence examples for denoted what from inspiring English sources

(History, a scornful dismissal of the out-of-date, as in "he's history," denoted what was once called passé, a term now so outmoded as to be antediluvian, a word washed ashore after Noah's flood. The language of fashion cries out for an up-to-date word for "out-of-date").

I first came across this movie during an intense period of mail-ordering from European Trash Cinema in the late 90s; listed in the catalogue as Trance and supposedly transferred from a Canadian VHS source, its brief synopsis denoted what my friend Sam McKinlay always called "a Janisse Special": Alienated teen girl obsessed with new wave pop star resorts to extreme measures when he rejects her.

Noun-noun compounds have a "head", the noun in the phrase that denotes what kind of thing is at issue.

On-field information stealing – decoding the signs to denote what kind of pitch is coming – is part of baseball.

The "mano cornuta" arrived vertically towards the forehead denotes what some call an ornament, but which in fact is the effect of a true infidelity.

On the memorial's Web site, they can also learn which names have deliberately been placed near others to denote what Mr. Arad calls "meaningful adjacencies".

That doesn't change the species any more than changing the number plate on your car changes the car, it merely changes how we identify it and denotes what we think it is.

A "share," by contrast, denotes what percentage of all the viewers watching television at a particular time tuned in to a particular program; a 30 share means that 30 percent of the viewing audience watched that program.

And, it is a slice of that same "squeezed middle" — a term borrowed from President Bill Clinton by the opposition leader Ed Miliband to denote what was once called the lower middle-class — which feels singularly threatened by the coalition's contentious plans to reduce Britain's crippling deficit through a combination of tax increases and spending cuts.

Yet Goodman has nothing to say on why certain pictures denote what they do.

As Reinach points out, in common usage these terms denote what he calls 'social acts' (now called 'speech acts').