Use "sobriquet" in a sentence
1. From his staff he earned the sobriquet "Mumbles".
2. The team acquired the sobriquet Jail Blazers.
3. Andrew Jackson was known by the sobriquet " Old Hickory. "
4. This sobriquet is a product of the sixteenth century.
5. Daniel Webster's relentless gaze and commanding presence earned him the sobriquet "Black Dan."
6. While Joshua was a primarily political sobriquet, ‘Most Honourable Brogad’ has became a social phenomenon
7. The dashes looked like ants column; thus, this effect earned the colorful sobriquet marching ants.
8. These charms have earned the television programme's presenter the sobriquet 'the thinking woman's crumpet'. Sentencedict.com
9. These charms have earned the television programme's presenter the sobriquet 'the thinking woman's crumpet'.
10. Fortunately some of the neighbours intervened, and it was they who invented the sobriquet.
11. The political connections that earned Goldman the sobriquet Government Sachs have been loosened by the crisis.
12. I became friendly with the woman in charge, a vast and haughty person who answered to the sobriquet Duchesse.
13. Synonyms for Byname include alias, cognomen, epithet, handle, monicker, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet and surname
14. Her father earned this sobriquet from the slaughter in East Pakistan as Bangladesh struggled to be born.
15. This has earned it the renown and sobriquet "The moonstone on the Crown of the Kingdom of Plants".
16. Broideress, Needlewoman A sobriquet of Míriel , mother of Fëanor, adopted because of her surpassing skill in weaving and needlework (S/63)
17. His right-wing politics and persistent warnings about the rise of China have earned him the sobriquet "Japan's Jean-Marie Le Pen".
18. xxxvi:1 One of our public men, I have been told, is known among his friends by the sobriquet of "Self-help by smiles."
19. Broideress, Needlewoman A sobriquet of Míriel , mother of Fëanor, adopted because of her surpassing skill in weaving and needlework (S/63)
20. In American homosexual argot, female inverts, or lesbian lovers, are known euphemistically as “Bulldykers,” whatever that may mean: at least that is their sobriquet in …
21. India plans to mothball its mainstay MiG-21 Soviet-era fighter jets, which have earned the sobriquet "flying coffins" because of their dismal safety record.
22. After that, Americans who wish to visit the space station (largely an American-financed project, despite its "international" sobriquet) will be reduced to hitching a lift with the Russians.
23. They are often given names based on the town in which they were reported(Sentencedict.com), or on the sobriquet which was given to Mary on the occasion of the apparition.
24. The term Bardolatry, derived from Shakespeare's sobriquet "the Bard of Avon" and the Greek word latria 'worship' (as in idolatry, worship of idols), was coined by George Bernard
25. From Joseph Parke’s 1906 book Human Sexuality: In American homosexual argot, female inverts, or lesbian lovers, are known euphemistically as “Bulldykers,” whatever that may mean: at least that is the sobriquet in the “Red Light” district of Philadelphia.
26. Byname: 1 n a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) Synonyms: cognomen , moniker , nickname , sobriquet , soubriquet Type of: appellation , appellative , denomination , designation identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
27. "All the same, his stylistic mannerisms-the deep hoarse Blurrings, the athletic in-front-of-the-beat timing, the flaring shakes-are highly conscious (the 'Wild' is more a personal than a musical sobriquet), and, imposed as they are on a conventional Armstrong basis, make Davison one of the most exciting of white small-band cornetists.
28. Such had been Silas Deemer--such the fixity and invariety of his life and habit, that the village humorist (who had once Attended college) was moved to bestow upon him the sobriquet of "Old Ibidem," and, in the first issue of the local newspaper after the death, to explain without offence that Silas had taken "a day off." It was more than a day, but from the record it appears that well within