Example sentences for: name-calling

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

  • Although white Americans have tended to ignore or downplay this joyful side of native culture, the fact remains that boisterous name-calling and irrepressible nicknaming was at one time as popular among the so-called Six Nations and five Civilized Tribes as among Big Eight or PAC Ten football fans today.

  • From Robert Bork to Clarence Thomas to John Tower to Jim Wright to Bill Clinton, recent politics has centered on "ethics" and brutal name-calling.

  • The editors reply: This sampling of e-mail is civilized compared to the vituperative name-calling cast down on Shuman by readers who used the link on the article to e-mail him directly.

  • Newspapers and commentators solemnly observe that this riot of negative ads and name-calling has cost $40 million (roughly $25 million from D'Amato and the Republican Party, the balance from Schumer and the Democrats).

  • Clinton's critics defended Burton's name-calling in a Dallas Morning News interview as essentially truthful; defenders wondered if Burton was merely projecting.


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