How to Use eponym in a Sentence

eponym

noun

• At this point, Zoom has more or less become a proprietary eponym.
  — Ksenya Samarskaya, Wired, 17 Feb. 2021
• Future use of the eponym should reflect the troubling context of its origins in Nazi-era Vienna.
  — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
• His dog, Bernie, leaps into the frame, something about his shaggy visage evoking his eponym.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• Much like their elusive eponym, unicorns are hard to come by, but Hill thinks TestFit will hit the mythical $1 billion mark.
  — Dallas News, 26 July 2022
• Grandma Ruby, the artist’s eponym, was a redoubtable guardian who kept her granddaughter safe by keeping her busy.
  — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2021
• The early editions of this off-road eponym come in two different drivelines.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 3 Dec. 2022
• Sitting courtside, Team Kidd’s eponym clearly delighted in the progress the fledgling program has made.
  — Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2021
• Who knows, maybe someone will try to launch a brand called Romilly and present the 18th-century horological eponym as the inventor of the chronograph?
  — Nick Foulkes, A-LIST, 24 Dec. 2017
• Toadfishes burp the songs of their eponyms; one sort of toadfish is called the singing midshipman.
  — John Hersey, Harper's, May 1987
• Occasionally an eponym is formed by combining a name with some other word.
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
• Her troubles begin with her name; Daiyu’s eponym is Lin Daiyu, a tragic figure of legend who dies spitting blood after the family of her beloved tricks him into marrying someone else.
  — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
• With a precision befitting its military eponym, the newsletter articulates style concerns yet to be uttered in the public sphere.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
• The county's board of supervisors decided in an unanimous vote on Thursday to change county's official eponym, according to a press release.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 25 June 2021
• Cable news proved to be an only slightly less absurd medium on Saturday, when noted hilarious eponym Rick Santorum criticized the students for their failure to learn first aid in response to the epidemic of mass shootings.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 26 Mar. 2018
• Other next-generation Lukas have unknowingly developed similar tendencies to their NBA eponym, too.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 13 May 2021
• Almost from the onset of television, congressmen have realized the promotional potential of the carefully scripted hearing: the McCarthy and Kefauver hearings of the 1950s, which were among the first "televison events," made their eponyms famous.
  — Gregg Easterbrook, Atlantic, Dec. 1984

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024