signifying

Example Sentences

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Signifying how bad the Baltimore game was, the Seahawks fell from third in the NFL in rushing yards allowed per play going into the game at 3.57 to 21st at 4.2.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023

Signifying nothing: The CIA’s logo looks like an album cover.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2021

“The black tradition”—from ring shouts to Ralph Ellison—“is double-voiced,” Gates writes, in the introduction to his seminal study, “The Signifying Monkey,” echoing Du Bois.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

Signifying what, a game set during the Cold War?

From Time • Oct. 17, 2016

It is a Tale Told by an Ideot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing.

From Macbeth by Shakespeare, William