Example sentences for: eponym

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

  • Simpson-- to O.J. , meaning "to slash"--shows some signs of acceptance among teen-agers ( O.J. had a previous life as an eponym, denoting a big car of the kind Simpson drove in his commercials for Hertz.

  • To kevork someone is to assist him in the commission of suicide--an eponym derived proximately, of course, from the work of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, but made possible by the prior success of the rhyming verb to bork (from the name Robert Bork, and meaning to use every means possible to sabotage a nominee to high office).

  • Stedman's Medical Dictionary , 26th edition (1995), argues that Graves ' is correct, while the Churchill lexicon (1989) omits both apostrophe and s with Graves but keeps both with Parry's disease , another eponym for hyperthyroidism.

  • Then there's pseudonym , (false name), eponym (named for a person, e.g., sandwich after Lord Sandwich), and acronym (formed from the initial letters or syllables of a group of words, e.g., snafu meaning Situation Normal; All Fouled Up or laser meaning Light Amplification Stimulated Emissions Radiation).

  • Critics may sensibly ask, Who owns the eponym?


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