Sentence examples for sign for something from inspiring English sources

Isn't California full of signs; isn't everything a sign for something else in Tinseltown?

Such an event is called sign learning, because, in knowing the sign for something, a person to some extent makes a response to the sign similar to that that he would make to the object itself.

He said that everything in the Church was a sign for something else, and a priest was a man who knew all the signs, but an altar boy knew a few of them, too.

Meinong (1910, §20, 138 [103], §43, 264 [19151]; 1915, §33; 1917, §1) calls it the self-presentation of inner experiences in opposition to the other-presentation [Fremdpräsentation], where the content functions as sign for something else.

On nearly every shopping street in the Netherlands, you'll find a huge sign for something you should buy.

It was a fateful night in 1974 when a skinny white kid slunk into Pepper's Hide Out on Chicago's South Side, took one look at all that Superfly exuberance -- fake fur, shag, Schlitz, Kools, signs for something called Original Pimp Oil -- and bolted.

Instead, could his specific pattern of rage and bravado conform to the classic signs for something called Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

I have a lovely memory of the last time and if I had to sign up for something, I'd sign up for that; if I had to produce a film, I would do it the same way.

"The metaphorical way you use the phrase 'neon sign' is for something unmissable, like, 'What do you need, a neon sign?' " Ms. Hively, 40, said, laughing.

Other late adopters sign up only when some critical mass of their peers sign up for something.

Heaven forbid you try to sign up for something just for fun!