Example sentences for: eponymous

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

  • His wife, Judy, and her father, Howard, are members of the intelligentsia in an unnamed country in the near future, and the story--told by the three characters seated at a table in direct address to the camera--involves the gradual destruction of their lives by an oppressive regime, and the moral disintegration of Jack, the eponymous survivor.

  • There are about 35,000 of them in the ordinary stock of the English language, a figure that does not include the many eponymous words in the specialized languages of science, engineering, and especially medicine.

  • There would appear to be no reason why the first of these defining factors cannot be applied equally well to verbs, a boycott and to boycott could be labelled hand-in-hand as eponymous noun and verb (poor Capt. Boycott having been forgotten by everyone except the etymologists and encyclopedists).

  • Funk dismisses Queen Elizabeth I and Betsy Ross as possible eponymous sources and concludes, “It is much more likely to have been derived in some way from the frontiersman's rifle or gun which, for some unknown reason, he always fondly called Betsy.

  • Legend attributes it to a more or less imaginary eponymous founder Romulus , or, in a less familiar version, to a Trojan woman, Rhome (whose name is a Greek word for `strength').


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