How to Use connote in a Sentence

connote

verb

• For her, the word “family” connotes love and comfort.
• The word “childlike” connotes innocence.
• 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
• Elias is a strong name that connotes strength and leadership in its bearers, just like Elijah the Prophet.
  — Toketemu Ohwovoriole, Parents, 30 July 2024
• 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
• Even the words connote a pedigree of snobbish good taste that evokes Ratatouille’s Anton Ego.
  — Leo Kirts, Them, 19 July 2024
• 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 more ancient word in the Old Testament is the Hebrew shalom, which also connotes a flourishing soul.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 30 June 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
• The figures of the mermaid, the nymph, and the water queen all connote a kind of eroticized, passive to-be-looked-at-ness, to borrow the film theorist Laura Mulvey’s term.
  — Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 21 June 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024