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Example sentences for: nicknames

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

He grew up all the way east on 76 th Street, in Yorkville, and although he seems to have been a mama's boy, a loner who liked to read, tough guys in the neighborhood gave him nicknames like Red, Runt, and Short Shit, and forced him to learn how to fight.
So most nicknames are the inheritance of boyhood features or facial characteristics, e.g., Chubby, Porgie, Moon, Snail, Speedy (apparently his opposite), Peg-Leg, and the like, all delineating good friends of mine.
Nicknaming, it seems fair to conclude, is an activity that has long delighted and entertained all Americans--white, colored, hyphenated, and just plain--and the fiercely contested clash over “Indian” nicknames appears to be largely due to overzealous activism and misdirected social reform.
2. To add to Insulting Nicknames, staffers at the late Houston Post referred to The Houston Chronicle as Brand X.
Some nicknames are promulgated by readers, of course, though for other reasons.