synecdoche
Example Sentences
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But it lured two million fair visitors, and, as we see, inspired children’s toys and books, before becoming a synecdoche for Paris itself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
In Darlington’s Devon neighborhood, the synecdoche for global habitat destruction is the arrival of a sign in a soon-to-be-former farm field: “Site Acquired for Development.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023
Baseball is practically a synecdoche for summer—the season of shared, relaxing stillness in the sun.
From Slate • May 22, 2020
The home, a nation unto itself, falls easily into the pitfalls of synecdoche.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2020
No man uses figures of speech with more propriety because he knows that one figure is called a metonymy and another a synecdoche.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
