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 Mangold’s hands, parts become wholes and the exhibition a master class in synecdoche: the tree is the forest; the painter a human representative negotiating with the natural world.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023
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
Baseball is practically a synecdoche for summer—the season of shared, relaxing stillness in the sun.
From Slate • May 22, 2020
‘Hunger’ is put by synecdoche for hungry animals.
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
