Example sentences for: eponymous

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

  • The eponymous heroine was born and raised in Quincy, Ill., and orphaned, just as the novel opens, at the age of 18.

  • The modestly ordinary fellow, meanwhile--the owner of a struggling travel-book shop in the eponymous London neighborhood--is impersonated by Hugh Grant, who has made a specialty of teasing ordinary modesty into extraordinary adorableness.

  • The places to be are Habana Café (the disco in Havana’s Hotel Meliá Cohiba) and the disco in Santiago’s eponymous hotel.

  • His eponymous hero (Edward Furlong) is a boyish, happy-go-lucky Baltimore photographer whose pictures of urban grotesques--from fornicating rodents to lesbian strippers to homeless exhibitionists--renders them objects of beauty and wonderment.

  • Encompass Anna Karenina : while not as revelatory as War \?\ Peace , that title is every bit as sweeping in a related arena: do not forget that the eponymous character departs the book some fifty pages before it ends, leaving her name as a metaphor for the deadly effects of society's conventions, as Tolstoy saw them, on the soul.


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