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How to use metonymic in a sentence

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The living conditions in the military, of which the hospitals are a synecdoche, also evince this metonymic transformation.
Until now, Burke has refused to let Ransom distinguish scientists from poets, for the metonymic nature of language constrains both parties.
John Ford even turned Monument Valley into a sort of metonymic symbol of the Far West landscape.
Lacan translates them by the sliding of the signified under the signifier, metaphorical structure and metonymic structure.
To free desire of its metaphorical gangue is to give it back its possibility for metonymic drifting.
Unless you managed to keep your head underwater, to immerse yourself in the endless metonymic shuffling of objects, it would be intolerable.
This metonymic extension was a semasiological process, which was, however, followed at some point by an onomasiological one.
With a metonymic expression encountered in almost every sixth utterance, an uncontroversial need for dealing with this problem is demonstrated.
As such they have metonymic significance to Mijikenda and are a fundamental source of Mijikenda's sense of 'being-in-the-world' and of place within the cultural landscape of contemporary Kenya.
Greenberg focuses on the grotesquely metonymic image of the spine to concretize a strong emotional response.
These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or metaphorical language.
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