Example sentences for: self-styled

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

  • In August 1996, Bin Ladin had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.

  • Soon after his return, Maggs encounters Tobias Oates, a novelist and self-styled "cartographer" of the "Criminal Mind," of which Maggs is soon forced to become the hapless embodiment.

  • Rosenbaum does pursue this theme--Hitler as a self-styled genius who painted not on canvases but on others' minds--but in the end he favors the more recondite picture of Hitler as diabolical comedian.

  • A USAT "Cover Story" gets the dirt on Jerry Baker, a self-styled "master gardener" whose folksy radio shows, how-to books, and PBS specials recommend dousing plants with mixtures that include chewing tobacco, mouthwash, and bourbon.

  • Lenin did use the pseudonym N. Lenin , among scores of others, and maybe a self-styled authority assumed that the N . stood for Nikolai , a name that may have been suggested by that of the Russian emperor.


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