Example sentences for: pseudonyms

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

  • The piece is bylined with pseudonyms but bears the unmistakable mark of comic novelist David Foster Wallace: excessive footnotes, excessive and nontraditional abbreviations, excessive and occasionally cloying self-consciousness, gratuitous use of Latin phrases, and employment of 10 cent words such as "cathedra," "synecdoche," and "clerestories."

  • 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.

  • Did you know that the IRS allows some of its employees to use pseudonyms when dealing with the public?

  • After 67 pages of well-written, informative essays about names and pseudonyms, each pseudonym is listed in alphabetical order with the real name following, some biographical data, information about the name change and, where appropriate, about the circumstances under which the change was made.

  • 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.


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