synecdoche

Example Sentences

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The situation was a perfect synecdoche for Hegseth’s self-inflicted Sispyphean task of trying to be a big man.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

But it lured two million fair visitors, and, as we see, inspired children’s toys and books, before becoming a synecdoche for Paris itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

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

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

But when we said "speech," we intended to employ a synecdoche, and that "expression" generically, should be understood, for expression is not only so-called verbal expression, as we have already noted.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto