How to Use thesaurus in a Sentence

thesaurus

noun

• So why does this paper seem to have been co-written by a thesaurus?
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2021
• Joniak might need a thesaurus as Justin Fields’ career takes flight for the Bears.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
• Accordingly, to try to describe the near $110 billion the US has pledged to Ukraine in the last year sends one scrambling for a thesaurus.
  — Thomas Sadoski, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• Newell — having absorbed the whole vocal thesaurus of diva riffs, shouts, gurgles and growls — stops the show.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Pack a low-back chair and a picnic (and maybe a thesaurus), and skip merrily off into the forest with Theseus and Hippolyta.
  — Brittany Martin, Los Angeles Magazine, 27 June 2018
• Books, including a thesaurus so tattered from use that back when there were regular tours of the newsroom, the tour guide would show it to visitors.
  — Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 23 June 2021
• But he is adored by the party members in the country who cherish his Bertie Wooster-with-a-thesaurus speeches and flamboyant style.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2019
• Be your own thesaurus and fact-checker, and squint with your ears at phrasing that comes off as aggressively neutral.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
• North Korean officials are, no doubt, sorting through their insult thesaurus this very moment in search of a way to hit back at Trump.
  — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Sep. 2017
• Grab your thesaurus and look up another word for bad, another word for tragic.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2020
• At the same time, the movie’s presumably normally gifted men are as superfluous to the proceedings as a thesaurus in the writers’ room.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• Over-the-top rhetoric that sounds as if someone locked Kiley in a room with a thesaurus, but doesn’t really conform to what even Newsom’s critics think of his performance.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2021
• Or perhaps his anti-Trump, pro-Clinton sentiments were not germane to his mere copy editing or his reliance on a thesaurus.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Dec. 2017
• The consensus among these experts is that AI, while a clear labor threat, will become a baseline tool for comedy writers, like a thesaurus or a search engine.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
• In the unabridged gentrification thesaurus, Whole Foods is a universal synonym for white people.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 12 Sep. 2017
• The protest — proudly accessorized with swastikas, Confederate flags, and an unabridged thesaurus of slurs — was perhaps the most grotesque manifestation of bigotry since the 2016 election.
  — Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 14 Aug. 2017
• But instead of advocating for the causes in which players have protested this season, joining Kapernick's cause, owners skimmed through their thesaurus looking for safe words.
  — Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• No thesaurus on earth can provide the appropriate adjectives.
  — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 17 Dec. 2017
• The physicians who inspected the twins included Dr. Peter Mark Roget, compiler of his eponymous thesaurus.
  — Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2018
• Synonymy—the concept of distinct words signifying the same thing—was understood as far back as Ancient Greece, but the Archbishop of Seville authored the earliest work modern readers might recognize as a thesaurus.
  — Claudia Kalb, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2021
• Flip through a thesaurus or take online quizzes to test your vocabulary, and gradually intumesce your personal lexicon and chevvy your kin with your verbosity.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 14 Mar. 2020
• My rudimentary word processing program had a thesaurus.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 11 July 2019
• The various returns to (or re-volcanic-eruptions of) figurative image-making in current art make Saul’s multifarious tropes a handy visual thesaurus for engaging the mind through corporeal mimesis.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
• Spending meaningful time with a thesaurus while also seeking out professional branding identity experts is advisable.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024