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Example sentences for "double meaning"

  • Inversa verba” clearly means, words with a double meaning, or substituted for others by previous arrangement, like correspondence by cipher.

  • The propositions having been got together, they must be examined in order to find out Equivocation or double meaning of terms.

  • He burned alive, in the centre of the arena of the amphitheatre, the writer of a farce, for some witty verse, which had a double meaning.

  • Footnote 346: The name of the island having a double meaning, and signifying also a goat.

  • He who equivocate uses words which have a double meaning, so that in one sense he can claim to have said the truth, though he does in fact deceive, and intends to do it.

  • A play upon words, the use of a word in such a way as to be capable of double meaning; punning.

  • There is probably a double meaning in the word "incomprehensible.

  • There is a double meaning here; kshetra means fit recipients as well as field.

  • There is a double meaning: padartha also means words and their meanings.

  • A cipher has a double meaning, one clear, and one in which it is said that the meaning is hidden.

  • A scalp had a double meaning: it indicated an act of supernatural power that had decreed the death of the man, and it served as tangible proof of the warrior’s prowess over his enemies.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "double meaning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    allowing them; body temperature; double action; double boiler; double company; double consciousness; double convex; double crochet; double entendre; double flowers; double number; double personality; double play; double portion; double sense; double series; double standard; double stars; extremely variable; obtain some; several varieties; small quarto; strange gods; think very; under arrest; winter night