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 protagonist says this of his Weltschmerz in the revised-for-the-'90s edition of The Little Engine That Could ."-- David Finkle

  • At that time owners of the American League Cleveland Naps , faced with the defection to Philadelphia of the team's inspirational player-manager, the eponymous Napoleon “Nap” Lajoie, held a city-wide contest to select a new nickname.

  • 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.

  • Gore and Bush had famous (eponymous) daddies.

  • 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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