How to Use lexicon in a Sentence

lexicon

noun
  • That phrase is at the heart of the free-trade lexicon.
    — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • This one is locked in the lexicon.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Well, the fact that self-care is even in my lexicon is the new part.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 17 June 2021
  • In the lexicon of healthy habits, feet tend to fall by the wayside.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Grain, in Scott’s lexicon, is the kind of thing a state can see.
    — Jedediah Purdy, New Republic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Over a decade's worth of work reduced to a single word in my lexicon.
    — EW.com, 14 May 2024
  • Just as most of these attempts to pilfer from our lexicon do.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2014
  • So, there’s a lot of things that have unfolded in the lexicon since then.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2022
  • But since then, deep state has entered the public lexicon with a vengeance.
    — Glenn Garvin, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Their lexicon has a certain charm.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • The lexicon of the wine world can be deceiving.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • And both are in the lexicon of existing.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Many of us have a secret language, the private lexicon of our home life.
    — Kathryn Hymes, The Atlantic, 13 May 2021
  • Ghosting has been a part of the modern dating lexicon for years.
    — Seventeen, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Surely bypass is the cruelest word in the lexicon of small towns.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Inevitably, the poor soul who posed the inquiry gets lost in its circuitous lexicon.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 11 May 2021
  • The wine will not taste sweet, except in Champagne, which has its own lexicon.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Since then, the term has become so much a part of the lexicon that there are folks who try to quantify it.
    — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • If 'tablescape' is part of your mom's lexicon, then this stunning duo of candles is a must.
    — Jaimie Potters, Men's Health, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The book was a best seller, and its titular coinage has since sunk into the lexicon.
    — Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Sep. 2017
  • VPPs will become the norm and part of the lexicon if this happens.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Yeh started with the most complex parts of the Chinese lexicon and worked back from there.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2024
  • Pho, banh mi and sriracha became a part of the American food lexicon.
    — Lauren Vuong, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Shame simply has no place in the lexicon of a stylish person, and anyone wearing a beret should do so with aplomb.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • In those early days of replying, a lexicon emerged to describe the overuse.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Yes, the word does appear in the lexicon of the English language.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2013
  • That word, so central to the lexicon of sports and its triumphant narrative arcs, burns on the tongue.
    — Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • But since then, Deep State has entered the public lexicon with a vengeance.
    — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The phrase will be introduced to the lexicon in an upcoming episode.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Still, the Grimms had models for a different kind of lexicon.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024

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