How to Use synecdoche in a Sentence

synecdoche

noun

• The synecdoche soon wore down, however, and other words came into view.
  — Ishion Hutchinson, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
• The right sequence has been used as a synecdoche, indicating the presence of a particular species in a sample.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2017
• First, there are several instances of synecdoche and merismus.
  — Sam Bray, Washington Post, 23 July 2017
• As a synecdoche for the tragedy of our historical moment, consider a news item about the murder of nineteen schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas.
  — Michael Robbins, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• Brokaw becomes, in his defense, a synecdoche for the proper success story, the ideal American man, the country itself and what is most precious in it.
  — Eve Fairbanks, The New Republic, 3 May 2018
• Once these drugs became a synecdoche for the hippie counterculture, and some researchers (including ones at the CIA) did less-than-ethical work, the stigma stuck.
  — Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2020
• What film choruses offer us is a perfect synecdoche for the collective, frenzied, and deeply mercenary magic that creates movies in the first place.
  — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2021
• King’s shudders and vibratos, half-shouts and glottal stops have become a synecdoche for the ongoing struggle for American freedom.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
• But rather than presenting their fate as an ending, Simpson goes beyond rhetorical strategies of synecdoche and metonymy to represent the whole encased in ice.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• Often confused with a synecdoche, where a part of a whole represents the whole, a metonymy represents a thing by using another closely related thing.
  — Leigh Cowart, The Cut, 15 Dec. 2017
• How four generations of one American family are a synecdoche of the decline of the conservative movement.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 19 Feb. 2021
• Season one started out aesthetically telling a story about one woman’s suffering that was meant as a kind of synecdoche of all women’s suffering.
  — Caroline Framke, Vox, 9 May 2018
• What some might call clear price-gouging tactics by such entities make for a convenient, and politically bipartisan, punching bag as a sort-of synecdoche of the sector's moral failings.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 20 May 2021
• The figure of Cormery’s domineering grandmother, taking a rawhide switch to the troublemaking boy or up to her elbow in a toilet recovering a two-franc piece, is a synecdoche for the country’s intransigence and desperation.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• But that person was, without exception, typified as a white working man of rural origins, which became the synecdoche for Americanness itself, a reductive oxymoron of universality.
  — Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024