denote

Example Sentences

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It can be be used to denote the southern extent of the aurora.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

As part of her quest to revive N|uu, she and her granddaughter, Claudia Snyman, established a school for the language, which uses special characters in script to denote the verbal clicks.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

If you think those pies denote happiness, you would be right.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

There aren’t even historical markers to denote the significance of those city lots.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025

In the summer of 1909, almost exactly a century later, the botanist Wilhelm Johannsen coined a distinct word to denote a unit of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee