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How to use metonym in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word metonym? Here are some examples.

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Even if skin color were taken as a signifier for race, a metonym for some racial homunculus, all it would prove is a trope, not an index.
The I of her narrative is a masquerade, and her identity is never more than a metonym for an endless chain of signifiers.
Hoping to bring democracy to the workplace, Propst had instead ushered in the cubicle, a billion-dollar industry and a metonym for drudgery.
Beijing, the metonym, will need to help tidy up the fiscal mess exemplified by Beijing, the place.
Today, its immediacy dulled by time and fame, it functions mainly as a visual metonym for the Great Depression.
In the final analysis, arrangement and classifying comprise a metonym for any form of intellectual activity.
Viewers should have been warned by the pilot, which was practically a metonym for the typical Murphy series.
The Panama hat came to signify secular Turkish citizenship and functions as a metonym for the transformation of the Oriental Ottoman to the Western Turk.
Thus a metonym is a type of synonym, and the word metonym is a hyponym of the word synonym.
In 1913, a square century ago, Johnston designed the Underground's red, white and blue roundel, a symbol now so familiar that it has become a metonym for London.
Located in the Holyrood area of the capital city, Edinburgh, it is frequently referred to by the metonym Holyrood.
He became known as Peeping Tom thus originating a new idiom, or metonym, in English.
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