Example sentences for: epithets

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

  • Whether by swinging his solo hammer or by standing for peace against the epithets of the world, Carter has become the first American.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The delightful and certainly disparaging canard also occurred to me, but I had already decided to limit my quest to personal epithets.


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