How to Use lexicon in a Sentence

lexicon

noun
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  • Describing that war means raiding the lexicon of misery.
    — Sigrid MacRae, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Or to stop using a service that’s already become an irreversible part of our pop culture lexicon.
    — Jenn Harris Senior Food Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • These were the early days of the Cold War; the term did not even exist yet in the American lexicon.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The name itself entered the cultural lexicon, in the same way people use Kleenex for tissues or Q-tip for cotton swab.
    — Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2021
  • And while his name may no longer strike the same chord of recognition, Davis has contributed significantly to the lexicon of rock music.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • But his artistic lexicon, which from the beginning was material- and process-oriented, has become gradually more imagistic.
    — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Names such as Velociraptor and Dilophosaurus joined Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops in the public lexicon.
    — Matthew A. Brown, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Well, the fact that self-care is even in my lexicon is the new part.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 17 June 2021
  • Grain, in Scott’s lexicon, is the kind of thing a state can see.
    — Jedediah Purdy, New Republic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • With the new get-out-the-vote efforts come a new lexicon.
    — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • Yes, the word does appear in the lexicon of the English language.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2013
  • So, there’s a lot of things that have unfolded in the lexicon since then.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Rock ’n’ roll marathon and fun run entered the lexicon.
    — Sheon Han February 9, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Over a decade's worth of work reduced to a single word in my lexicon.
    — EW.com, 14 May 2024
  • But the term did not enter the U.S. lexicon until about a decade after 9/11.
    — Evelyn Alsultany, Time, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Yeh started with the most complex parts of the Chinese lexicon and worked back from there.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2024
  • But since then, deep state has entered the public lexicon with a vengeance.
    — Glenn Garvin, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018
  • But since then, Deep State has entered the public lexicon with a vengeance.
    — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Surely bypass is the cruelest word in the lexicon of small towns.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The lexicon consisted of two classes of words: free and bound.
    — Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • The wine will not taste sweet, except in Champagne, which has its own lexicon.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Inevitably, the poor soul who posed the inquiry gets lost in its circuitous lexicon.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 11 May 2021
  • And here a crucial word in Trump’s lexicon must be whispered: losers.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The movie has become even more beloved over the years, with the title having entered the lexicon as a tedious sense of déjà vu.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Just as most of these attempts to pilfer from our lexicon do.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2014
  • Many of us have a secret language, the private lexicon of our home life.
    — Kathryn Hymes, The Atlantic, 13 May 2021
  • And so the travails of travel became engraved in the lexicon.
    — James Harbeck, The Week, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Print reporters ran with it, team broadcaster Gene Hart added it to his on-air lexicon, and the moniker stuck.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Ghosting has been a part of the modern dating lexicon for years.
    — Seventeen, 19 Apr. 2017
  • The book was a best seller, and its titular coinage has since sunk into the lexicon.
    — Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Sep. 2017

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