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.

  • My heart aches for the days of the old Spy , when columnists hid behind pseudonyms, skewered Abe "I'm Writing as Bad as I Can" Rosenthal and other Times men, and recounted delicious personal details about editors I'd never heard of who left the bathroom without washing their hands, etc.

  • There are currently 350 pseudonyms in use at the agency.

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

  • 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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