how to make a homographs sentences

I don’t really understand the question. Are you asking for examples of sentences that include homographs? Or are you asking how to construct a sentence that includes homographs? If the latter, are you asking how to construct a sentence that includes two words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings? Or how to construct a sentence that contains a homographic word or words, even if the sentence doesn’t include the other word?

An example of the last is the caption to a cartoon. The drawing depicts a man wrestling with a large furry animal of the Ursa genus, falling through a hole in a raised platform with curtains on either side of it. The caption reads, “Bear with me, it’s just a stage I’m going through.” “Bear with me” is an idiom asking for patience, and “a stage I’m going through” suggests a temporary period of personal development.

Now if you’re asking how to construct a sentence that includes homographs, it’s simple: 1) select a homograph; 2) consider its various meanings and how they might intersect; 3) consider the parts of speech they represent and observe the rules of grammar; 4) put it all together. Like so…

Step 1, select a homograph. How about “Bow”?

Step 2, meanings: a bow is a device used to shoot arrows, a tool for drawing across the strings of a violin, a decorative knot in a length of ribbon, the front part of a boat, and a fanciful way of acknowledging applause after a performance. A violinist would use a bow, and after a solo, might take a bow. His concert could take place in the bow of a ship at sea, and if he were a she, she might have a bow in her hair. I don’t know whether we could fit an archer’s bow into such a scenario, but four out of five isn’t a bad ratio.

Step 3, the grammatical analysis. Most of those usages are nouns. The first three are things you can hold, one is a place, and one could be an action.

Step4, pulling it all together. After finishing his recital in the bow, the violinist took a deep bow, revealing the blue satin bow he had tied to his spare bow, indentifying him as the spy from Upper Downington, and prompting the archer to fit an arrow to his bow, draw, and let fly.

It’s a bit verbose, and maybe the archer doesn’t need to be there, which could also eliminate the phrase about his being a spy. In any case, the revision process will pare down the sentence to its essentials and polish it up nicely.

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