Example sentences for: epithets

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

  • We can maximize the total freedom of speech by silencing people who prevent others from speaking--when they utter racial epithets, represent women in degrading ways, use their wealth to dominate the press and the political process, or block the funding of unorthodox art.

  • Chatterbox has learned that Monica Lewinsky's mother, Marcia Lewis, used certain familiar epithets to describe her husband, Bernard, when she divorced him back in the late 1980s.

  • epitats (epithets) NBC News reporter David Bloom 29 July 1995 and on many occasions since; CBS 60 Minutes reporter Steve Croft 25 September 1994

  • The text is organized into ten chapters titled “The Lexicon for Bodily Effluvia, Sex, and Tabooed Body-Parts,” “Euphemisms in Addressing and Naming,” “Taboo Terms as Insults, Epithets, and Expletives,” and so on; without a word and phrase index, access to particular expressions is denied, thus reducing the usefulness of the work.

  • If Green Mile had any bravery, it would have dealt with the fact that racial epithets were offhandedly tossed off by what were considered the best of men during that period.


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