How do you use Lozenge in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like candy or confect, plus the exact meaning.
Lozenge meaning
- A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles.
- A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
Using Lozenge
- The main meaning on this page is: A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles. | A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
- Useful related words include: candy, confect, pill, tablet.
- In the example corpus, lozenge often appears in combinations such as: magic lozenge.
Context around Lozenge
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lozenge
- In this selection, "lozenge" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, magic, throat, expanding, shaped, moquette and plot stand out and add context to how "lozenge" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a lozenge moquette seat and a magic lozenge a scenario. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lozenge" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lozenge
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Today's logo is a kite shaped double lozenge bordered in gold. (12 words)
A lozenge moquette seat design commissioned for the Underground Electric Railways Company circa 1913. (14 words)
The most common symbol, adopted for about 20 years, had been a white lozenge with the flower inside. (18 words)
Dodging the magic lozenge The Mikado main Lithograph of the "Three Little Maids" from The Mikado The most successful of the Savoy Operas was The Mikado (1885), which made fun of English bureaucracy, thinly disguised by a Japanese setting. (39 words)
One shape alone is normally reserved for a specific purpose: the lozenge, a diamond-shaped escutcheon, was traditionally used to display the arms of women, on the grounds that shields, as implements of war, were inappropriate for this purpose. (39 words)
They were flat diamond, lozenge (or rhombus )-shaped sheets or "blanks" which had been precut to shape before being fed to the machine for creasing and made ready for folding to form a rectangular enclosure. (35 words)
Example sentences (12)
Gone was the old huge notch of previous generations, replaced by a lozenge shaped cutout (Pro/Max models) and a flexible bit of UI programming which disguised the unsightly void.
A lozenge moquette seat design commissioned for the Underground Electric Railways Company circa 1913.
I didn't understand it either until a Norwegian friend of mine gave me a salty licorice throat lozenge when I had a cough/head cold/sore throat.
A 4-way flood-fill algorithm that uses the adjacency technique and a queue as its seed pixel store yields an expanding lozenge-shaped fill.
Ainger, pp. 259–61 For their next piece, Gilbert submitted another version of the magic lozenge plot; Sullivan immediately rejected it.
Dodging the magic lozenge The Mikado main Lithograph of the "Three Little Maids" from The Mikado The most successful of the Savoy Operas was The Mikado (1885), which made fun of English bureaucracy, thinly disguised by a Japanese setting.
Gilbert first suggested a plot in which people fell in love against their wills after taking a magic lozenge – a scenario that Sullivan had previously rejected.
One shape alone is normally reserved for a specific purpose: the lozenge, a diamond-shaped escutcheon, was traditionally used to display the arms of women, on the grounds that shields, as implements of war, were inappropriate for this purpose.
The most common symbol, adopted for about 20 years, had been a white lozenge with the flower inside.
The outer lozenge has a purple background with the letters "AC" in white and the letter "F" in red, standing for the club's name.
They were flat diamond, lozenge (or rhombus )-shaped sheets or "blanks" which had been precut to shape before being fed to the machine for creasing and made ready for folding to form a rectangular enclosure.
Today's logo is a kite shaped double lozenge bordered in gold.
Common combinations with lozenge
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: