How to Use connote in a Sentence

connote

verb
Definition of connotenext
Synonyms for connotenext
  • Colors on the site were switched to black and white to connote mourning.
    — Josh Chin, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • The name of the school obviously connotes what some of the focus should be.
    — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2018
  • In and of themselves, the words Braves or Chiefs do not connote disrespect to my ears.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 27 July 2020
  • The unisons connoting the war (and choreographed to most of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.
    — Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Holding the bloody digit aloft, the Ghoul gives Lucy a look that almost connotes respect.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Of course, there are moments in which a roughed-up bag doesn’t connote glam insouciance.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2021
  • But the visual majesty of the movies — the original and yours — connotes a certain optimism.
    — Nash Jenkins, Time, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Northwell prefers not to call the Food as Health Center a pantry, concerned that the term might connote indigence.
    — Lucette Lagnado, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2018
  • Lodi, which to the general wine public connotes off-dry blush wines and Port-like red blends.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2018
  • And like the cowboy hat, Mr. Wilcox added, baseball caps connote masculinity, and give men of any age a stylish way to hide.
    — Scott Christian, WSJ, 19 June 2018
  • There's a lot connoted with such a big birthday — but Puryear has anything but herself in mind.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2017
  • There's a lot connoted with such a big birthday — but Puryear has anything but herself in mind.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2017
  • To her, that name connoted a very heavy-set, crude woman — a Sophie Tucker.
    — Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 21 Apr. 2020
  • But these days Porsche uses the name Turbo to connote a high level of performance.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The name should connote quality both now and in the future, and that’s difficult to predict from newer brands.
    — Alisa Wolfson, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The name is supposed to connote special abilities and mission in life.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The wording seems to connote an attempt to save money by banking on unborns or newborns to die.
    — Joni Hess, Vox, 30 July 2019
  • The idea and meaning behind wearing a mask is constantly in play, connoting both good and evil.
    — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The time stamp connotes the moment Hamas’ cross-border assault from Gaza began, near the fields outside the Re’im kibbutz where the festival took place.
    — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The blank space in the title represents a word that cannot be published here, connoting the urgency of her mission.
    — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • In the Middle Ages the concept shifted and connoted instead the connection between the present and a noble past.
    — Jennifer Raff, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Almost anything else is a pretender and a cheap ploy to capture a diner’s money with the lure of luxury that one connotes with the word truffle.
    — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 18 July 2017
  • The designer says that Paola’s blond hair helped connote poshness.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The film's title connotes liberation, yet this is the most conservative of the three films based on E.L. James’s naughty novels.
    — Leah Pickett, Chicago Reader, 9 Feb. 2018
  • At the same time, Astrid & Lilly‘s chipperness does not connote shallowness of feeling.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
  • For a holiday that connotes pampering, feel free to go all out in the gifting department.
    — The Cut, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Apart from its use as a marketing term for, say, microbrews, the word today doesn’t usually connote a skilled trade.
    — Sarah Archer, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2018
  • The phrase usually connotes an onerous burden, an exhausted and overworked woman taxed with care for the young and the elderly at the same time.
    — Nancy Shohet West, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2019
  • Rosabella is both rosé and beautiful, as the Italian name connotes.
    — Alfonso Cevola, Dallas News, 15 May 2020
  • Tropical heath, however, connotes the colonial context of healthcare for the subjects of Western rulers.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024

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