Example sentences for: epithet

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

  • So do, surely, BeeWee intensifications, doubling the epithet; a Windward Islander may call a fruit sweet-sweet , one adjective not sufficing to express feelings about it enough.

  • Did not these savage Newcomers (another popular epithet), bound up in their tight-fitting sleeves, buttons, and collars, appreciate the superior comfort and versatility of blankets?

  • And then Robinson bids us compare “the Arabic epithet of Alexander the Great” which he translates as the Latin word, bicornis `two-horned.

  • The Dutch, most notably, have adopted an English expletive too coarse to reproduce here (though if I say, “hits the fan” I expect you'll be with me), but they use it as a mild and largely meaningless epithet, roughly equivalent to our gosh or golly or even just hmmmm --to such an extent, I am told that they must now take special care not to startle English-speaking visitors.

  • After a while, Cleveland fans grew accustomed to the epithet and began using it themselves, gradually converting it into an unofficial nickname.


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