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Example sentences for: sobriquet

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At the same time, the cavalry officer's sabre, a much-coveted battle trophy, gave rise to the alternative nickname of Long Knives , a sobriquet that combined light-hearted jeering with wary respect.
The lexical match requires the speaker to refer to herself in the third person, while ingeniously seizing the opportunity--a further intertextuality--to hint at her Moscow-inspired sobriquet, the Iron Lady.
Until the early 1900s, to ride the cars meant to take a tram, and the man in the cars was used as sobriquet for an average person, like the man in the street .
More likely, though, the sobriquet refers to the sound of the continually moving waters, sloshing against a beautiful rock basin like sauces bubbling in a pan.