Example sentences for: pseudonyms

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

  • In the belief that knowledge of another person's real name gave one magical power over that person, early tribal members often concealed their true names beneath protective layers of pseudonyms.

  • Originally published in 1981 by Routledge as Naming Names, Stories of Pseudonyms and Name Changes, with a Who's Who , the author's Introduction warrants this new edition to be “more readable, more comprehensive and more orderly” in addition to being updated.

  • Pseudonyms have never been more widely employed than they are today, when millions of invented, incorporeal identities are in play in all kinds of electronic communication.

  • Tillie Olsen identifies silent periods when women are diverted from their work by needs of their families; Spender talks of “silence upon silence” that has kept women's experience from being encoded; Adrienne Rich, in On Lies, Secrets and Silences , sees women's struggle for self-determination “muffled or silenced over and over”; most recently, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar chart women authors' apparent alienation from language, their frequent use of pseudonyms an attempt at renaming or, really, naming themselves.

  • We used pseudonyms to fill up the pages.


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