Example sentences for: eponymous

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

  • By 1988 the editors of Dorland's 28th edition had deleted three eponymous entries for hyperthyroidism, retaining Graves but now as Graves disease , the second s and its possessive apostrophe banished.

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

  • An eponymous verb derived from the name O.J.

  • In a brilliant novel published last year, The Puttermesser Papers , her eponymous heroine, Ruth Puttermesser, becomes mayor of New York City and embraces a Whitmanesque vision of urban harmony--Jews and Christians and everyone together--before being undone by a rapacious golem.

  • The lucky and eponymous beneficiaries: The William H. Gates Foundation, which deals with world health and population issues, and the Gates Learning Foundation.


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