Sentence examples for own connotation from inspiring English sources

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"People will say, 'How come I know what he's thinking?' Sometimes in a movie if you just look, people put their own connotation on it, because in real life people don't make faces.

For example, the thesaurus gives "chirpy," "ecstatic," and "merry" as synonyms for "happy," but each of those words has its own connotation, or particular shade of meaning, that can change the tone and even meaning of your sentence if you aren't careful.

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Yet certain words in the lexicon of wine are prisoners of their own connotations, robbed of their meanings because they so readily touch off prejudicial thoughts or emotions.

The options are numerous, each with its own connotations: the teenage baby sitter, the Swedish au pair, the trusted housekeeper, the energetic mother's helper, the buttoned-up governess, and, most recently, the beloved nanny.

They developed their own connotations, nuances, innuendos — some seemingly accidental, others slyly intentional.

Each has their own connotations and each variably risks being too lenient or too condemnatory in their tone and positioning.

Let other people carry around their own connotations and traditionalist justifications––that's their issue, not yours.

The fact that the chimp is being shot by two white policemen also has its own unsavoury connotations.

The term, oblivious to its own racial connotations, is meant to conjure some radioactive alloy of jazz and black metal: a fair assessment of this music, with its scoured vocal squalls, its scorch-blistered riffs and its furious, pneumatic drumming.

So much so, that that term even carries its own bad connotations.

In addition, we anticipate that readers will have their own subjective connotations and reactions to our concluding statement.

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