How to Use lexicon in a Sentence

lexicon

noun

• 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
• The poached egg on page 202 of the Greek lexicon in the library of the British Museum is dirt.
  — Anne Carson, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Due to the pervasiveness of the sport, a few falconry terms have even been added to our lexicon.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
• Miri is, in the lexicon of TV character flavours, a Bad Woman.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 4 June 2020
• In those early days of replying, a lexicon emerged to describe the overuse.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2024
• The phrase has since entrenched itself firmly in the extremely online lexicon over the last few days, and isn’t showing any signs of going away.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2024
• Luscious hair has become as much of a trademark of Love Island as its infamous lexicon, with just a few female contestants sporting bob-length hair or shorter in its 11 UK seasons thus far.
  — Hannah Thompson, refinery29.com, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024