Sentence examples for metonym for from inspiring English sources

In Chinese, Xi Shi has become a metonym for beauty.

The rhetoric of the "war on terror" has turned "terrorist" into an everyday metonym for Muslim.

("India" here is a metonym for the middle class, and vice versa).

(To get technical, it's really a metonym for quality, but that wouldn't fly in ad copy).

Viewers should have been warned by the pilot, which was practically a metonym for the typical Murphy series.

Today, its immediacy dulled by time and fame, it functions mainly as a visual metonym for the Great Depression.

In black women's music, trifling men have long been metonyms for a patriarchy that never affords black women the love and life they deserve.

They are metonyms for the underbelly of society, and their challenging revelations of their own usually hidden body parts is a metaphor for the whole project of exposing what polite society would prefer to keep under wraps.

She is a cautionary tale: in The Last Battle we find out that Susan has become interested in 'nylons, lipsticks and invitations' - metonyms for sex - and is no longer a friend of Narnia.

As for other facets of the interpretive process (including parsing), use of deep domain knowledge for metonym processing can be quite effective in sufficiently narrow domains, while corpus-based, shallow methods scale better to broader domains, but are apt to reach a performance plateau falling well short of human standards.

It's an uncomplicated statement of solidarity, but in the context of the art fair feels opportunistic and overly media-friendly – a too-perfect metonym of the revolution.