synecdoche
Example Sentences
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The near-perfect overlay of the religious image with a political image is a visual synecdoche for the Revolution’s replacement of Christianity with the cults of Nature and Reason.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
In Darlington’s Devon neighborhood, the synecdoche for global habitat destruction is the arrival of a sign in a soon-to-be-former farm field: “Site Acquired for Development.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023
The home, a nation unto itself, falls easily into the pitfalls of synecdoche.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2020
You could spend a lifetime studying the building, but this book, the catalog of a 1995 exhibition of the photography of Édouard Baldus, is a serviceable synecdoche.
From Slate • Mar. 2, 2019
By synecdoche, the lyre is put for the angel v.
From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete by Cary, Henry Francis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
