Example sentences for: eponyms

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

  • Many experts, however, prefer to categorize these as common nouns or adjectives, labelling them eponyms --words derived from names.

  • Of what relevance (to usage, notwithstanding the fact that the topic is interesting) is an entry on eponyms (“John Bull and John Hancock are not just any johns.”

  • The surge in eponyms is no doubt related, in part, to the efflorescence of metanames in general.

  • But rather than pursue that obscure tack any further (place names such as Washington are surely both proper nouns and eponyms), let us see if the proper categories of words really end there as grammar books tend to suggest.

  • The difference between it and "Heimlich" or "sandwich," to take two more common eponyms, is that there are many, many other terms for oral sex, but none for the Heimlich maneuver or a sandwich.


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