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Example sentences for: epithet
How can you use “epithet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
There is certainly no contemporary leader with an adopted name as coldly presumptuous as "Stalin" (meaning "man of steel," an epithet adopted when Josef Dzhugashvili was still more than a decade away from power), much less one comparable with "Richard the Lionhearted" or "Vlad the Impaler."
And while he scored some memorable bull's-eyes on his fellow red men (for example, the Mohawks -- `man-eaters'--were given their blood-thirsty epithet by enemy tribes), he nevertheless reserved his choicest zingers for the invading whites.
Simpson trial if the defense team hadn't made a big fuss over whether he was or was not telling the truth about his use of a racial epithet.
The coalfields of Lothian and Fife fueled the growth of baking, distilling, printing, and machine-making industries, giving Edinburgh the epithet “Auld Reekie” (Old Smoky).
Out of context, this isn't crazy, since the Christ-killer epithet has justified pogroms for centuries and the international Jewish banking and media conspiracy theory is alive and being propagated.