How to Use anagram in a Sentence

anagram

noun
  • Then there's the name Verna, which happens to be an anagram for Raven.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The bag features the house’s anagram symbol woven in a jacquard.
    Rachel Besser, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Forbes even came up with its own game, Frase, a fun anagram puzzler.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Even so, all the subjects performed about the same on their anagram-solving test.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2013
  • Part of the tip-off was the fictitious person’s name: Ron Vara, which is an anagram of Navarro.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
  • He was known for his speedy solutions in games of anagrams that flew around the room in the interest of wasting time.
    Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2015
  • The fictitious person’s name: Ron Vara, which is an anagram of Navarro.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The song’s title, meanwhile, is an anagram for none other than Madonna.
    Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Yes, all five character names are anagrams of each other.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 24 May 2023
  • Loewe's anagram knits are also a top look this winter, with natural hues and a mohair blend.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Tellingly, an anagram of all the letters in omicron is moronic.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The accented anagram of the film’s title hints at Field’s first mission: getting inside the definitions of art and artist.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Lydia’s surname is an anagram for art — and also, as a disaffected acolyte notes, for rat.
    A.o. Scott, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • His newest album, Stolen Car (an anagram of his name), was released on September 25.
    Catherine Sinow, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The new material was dubbed spandex, an anagram of expands.
    Andrew Freeman, Outside Online, 21 May 2012
  • Include the original title or text — spelled correctly, so that your anagram makes sense — or the Empress will be Scrooge-scowly.
    Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2020
  • To stay sharp, Anderson spends at least 30 minutes a day on anagrams, rearranging letters to form words.
    Julia Terruso, Philly.com, 13 May 2018
  • Turtles can't spell, so Godwin likened the aquarium team's role to that of an anagram solver, simply rearranging.
    Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Finally, Kondrak and Hauer assumed the manuscript was an anagram, meaning the letters in each word have been scrambled.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2019
  • His poems have been influenced by riddles, anagrams and Japanese slide shows called pechakucha.
    New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • It’s made using the same method as Champagne, with the second fermentation in the bottle, and with the classic grapes of cava, parellada, macabeu and xarello, of which Loxarel is an anagram.
    New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • In reality, being able to play small and make space for those big answers is just as valuable, if not more valuable, than being able to deftly figure out anagrams.
    Isaac Aronow, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • To begin with, Senay asked 53 psychology students to solve an anagram task, rearranging the letters of ten words into ten new ones.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2010
  • Mensa provides a set of friends who understand his anagrams, palindromes and other word games, Lederer said.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2018
  • Much like Cheung’s fish-out-of-water star, Vikander’s Mira (dig that anagram) is caught in a cultural vortex that both excites and confuses her.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2022
  • The theme-and-variations format is enchanting, allowing Sondheim, the great puzzler, to treat songs almost as anagrams.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • With that crew around, however, and L.B. driving the entertainments, the long evenings could become barbed—anagrams and other word games were played as life-and-death matters, and more than one participant, Jamie says, left the room in tears.
    David Denby, The New Yorker, 16 June 2018
  • In 1965, Loewe introduced its first ready-to-wear collection, and five years later, the brand enlisted Spanish artist Vicente Vela to develop a logo—the famed anagram of four scrolling l’s still in use today.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2021
  • During the first year of the pandemic, the pair had dived into popular online word games created by the Times, such as Spelling Bee, a daily anagram puzzle, and the paper’s daily crossword.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Loxarel farms biodynamically, and makes this wine with the three classic cava grapes, parellada, macabeu and xarello (of which Loxarel is an anagram).
    New York Times, 19 Aug. 2021

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