Example sentences for: badge

How can you use “badge” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The left-wing publishing house Verso has reissued the classic of political philosophy on its 150 th anniversary, marketing the book at chic clothiers as "an accessory, a stocking-stuffer, a badge of consummate capitalist cool" (Barbara Ehrenreich, Salon ). Left-wing reviewers stress the tract's continued relevance as a critique of labor relations, while conservatives redefine Marx and Engels as prophets of capitalism who respected the economy's dynamism and strength.

  • At other times, she plays to her base, wearing her enemies' scorn as a badge of honor: "I've fired a lot of people and killed a lot [of copy].

  • To be sent away was a badge of honor, to undergo electroshock a glorious martyrdom.

  • Displaying your Microsoft employee ID badge outside your clothing will not win you a place on Mr. Blackwell's Best Dressed List, and is no longer acceptable.

  • Natural blondness, once the badge of physical and moral perfection, now marks you as hopelessly true-blue, white-bread, straight-arrow, old hat.


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