Sentence examples for the signifying from inspiring English sources
verb
To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
I later found out that he had read some of my work such as The Signifying Monkey in college.
He cued up two segments in which Armstrong associates recite the African-American trickster story about the Signifying Monkey.
"The black tradition"—from ring shouts to Ralph Ellison—"is double-voiced," Gates writes, in the introduction to his seminal study, "The Signifying Monkey," echoing Du Bois.
It's very difficult to include expert commentary that depletes or diffuses the newsiness, because it sucks the signifying force out of the piece.
The tale, which originated in West Africa, became a basis for an influential study by the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., "The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism".
Often they don't seem to have much to do with the images, as is the case with "Half a Dozen Dead," a picture of two dancing women in evening wear, or "The Signifying Donkey's Feat," a grinning, androgynous figure with a leonine mane.
The act, signifying usurpation, left the assembly in shock.
The results signify the great potential of the studied materials for various advanced applications.
The perfective, signifying an action carried through to its conclusion".
Within Saomai, convection deepened near the center, signifying continued intensification.
The forms signify the bodies of massacred American Indians.
