Example sentences for: so-called

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

  • A variety of so-called “antique” shops sell the odd interesting relic amid piles of dusty junk.

  • "Sensation"--the show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is trying to quash by threatening to withdraw city funding from the institution--is not the first exhibition of so-called "sick stuff" to be shown by a publicly funded New York cultural institution during his seven-year tenure.

  • The so-called Untouchables have greater opportunities now to rise on the social scale, a few of them becoming captains of industry or cabinet ministers, but it’s still their brethren who sweep the streets.

  • Her sweetener, the so-called Homemaker IRA, would increase the sum that homemakers are allowed to put away in tax-free Individual Retirement Accounts from the current $250 to $2,000 a year, raising their IRA savings limit to match that of their working spouses.

  • It generally appears alone, but sometimes it is associated with headache; flushing; erythematous rash over the face, neck and upper torso (the so-called 'red man' syndrome); hypotension; and broncospasm [ 4, 13, 14, 15].


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