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

The home, a nation unto itself, falls easily into the pitfalls of synecdoche.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2020

You could spend a lifetime studying the building, but this book, the catalog of a 1995 exhibition of the photography of Édouard Baldus, is a serviceable synecdoche.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2019

Or the artist, proceeding by synecdoche, takes a part for the whole, and instead of portraying the entire animal, contents himself with one prominent feature or one aspect of it.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison