How To Use Metonymically In A Sentence

• Rather, she keeps close to home, a location that metonymically signals that her interests are congruous with the interests of her husband and family.
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• The actual subject herself only appears once or twice; the ‘portrait’ is built up metonymically, in terms of the objects the mother once wore or used: chemises, girdles, shoes, lipsticks, false teeth.
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• In a metalepsis, a word is substituted metonymically for a word in a previous trope, so that a metalepsis can be called, maddeningly but accurately, a metonymy of a metonymy. Jihad Monitor
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• Often one piece of clothing, such as the cheongsam or kimono, supposedly metonymically represents all Asian culture.
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• On the one hand, in common usage, the term ‘grammar’ metonymically represents linguistic organization, even language itself, tacitly subsuming areas such as vocabulary and pronunciation.
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