How to Use synonym in a Sentence

synonym

noun

• The synonym, on the other hand, plays well with others.
  — Leah Eskin, charlotteobserver, 7 Sep. 2017
• One’s a synonym for Midwestern, and — in the minds of many — the other might as well be.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
• Clive Davis’ name is a synonym for the ultimate record man.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
• Resetting the line of scrimmage is a synonym for stopping the run.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2020
• In fact, a synonym in Italian for tuorlo (yolk) is rosso (red).
  — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2019
• The region has been a synonym for remote for centuries.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019
• The very name Scrooge has become a global synonym for stingy or miserly….
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• Even the casual use of the term refugee on the streets of Warsaw as a synonym for Ukrainian was noteworthy.
  — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 May 2022
• Watching grass grow has long been a synonym for boredom.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• For a long time, boxed wine was a synonym for the cheapest, sweetest wines available, like Franzia and Bota Box.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2022
• The phrase has been popularized as a synonym for a paradox.
  — Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2018
• Today’s Theme Each of the theme entries has two parts: The first word is a type of food and the second is a synonym for leaving a location.
  — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• But White in this context is a synonym for awkward or uncool.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
• Culture to me is the perfect synonym for longer tables, for sharing.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• In countless languages and religions, breath is a synonym for life, as well as for the spirit or soul.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• Fan, we are told frequently, should not be a synonym for customer.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• The name also is a relative synonym for the dam, Strong Incentive.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2021
• The word is a whimsical synonym for fate, the unpredictable forces that lead people to their destiny.
  — Rachel Syme, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• It is sometimes used as a synonym for uncouth or a simpleton.
  — David Luhnow and Juan Montes, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
• The danger is thus acute of Agile becoming a synonym for cost-cutting.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• This is what the app economy, often a synonym for the new economy, demands.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 30 July 2019
• Recession is a word, which is loosely, and wrongly, used as a synonym for slowdown.
  — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 26 Apr. 2020
• If that term seems overused today, the short’s title provides both a case study and a clunky synonym for the year’s trendiest accusation.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
• Messari Research’ is a synonym for Messari founder Ryan Selkis).
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2019
• The word itself has become a synonym for something that is real and tangible.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2017
• Burt Bacharach, songwriter who was a ‘synonym for pop-music success,’ dies at 94.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• Several companies sell the drug in the US, for prices that range from $10 to $50 apiece, but Plan B has the largest market share and is a de-facto synonym for the morning-after pill.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 30 June 2022
• Baathism — a synonym for pan-Arabic socialism — ruined the post-war Middle East.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
• Social media users often use the word as a synonym for icon and legend—though those titles themselves hold a different status in ball culture.
  — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 12 May 2024
• The problem with pity is that it’s so often interpreted as a soft emotion, a synonym for empathy or compassion.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024