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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:

That is because long before it became a popular name for a resident of Boston, warlike tribes had used Beaneaters as a derisive epithet for peace-loving agrarian Indians.
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.
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).
In an age when national power inheres less and less frequently--or, at any rate, less and less legitimately--in the hands of an all-powerful individual, the adoption of a symbolic personal name by way of an aggrandizing personal epithet has sadly fallen out of favor.
The troopers, for their part, enjoyed the epithet and accepted it as a good-natured tribute.