How to Use sobriquet in a Sentence
sobriquet
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Some of the Elite Eight—is that a better sobriquet?—operate in different corners of the world from one another.
—Fortune, 31 Aug. 2017
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Among his Tour colleagues Donald has earned the sobriquet Mr. Plod.
—Harry Hurt, Town & Country, 8 Apr. 2014
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Though Royko would later retract it, the sobriquet stuck.
—Mark Brilliant, Washington Post, 10 July 2020
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Bridgewater told the crowd, and one couldn’t have asked for a much more full-blooded expression of that sobriquet.
—Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
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Her mother’s sobriquet is Black Mamba: a snake that often counts mice among its prey.
—Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2020
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Critics called it the Blue Whale, a sobriquet Pelli embraced.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2019
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The plethora of sobriquets may seem peculiar, but this shouldn’t detract from the danger posed by the present heat in southern Europe.
—Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 14 July 2023
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The Saskatchewan native became an ice-hockey legend in Portland, earning the sobriquet the Red Baron for his scorching style of play.
—oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2021
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The protest movement Hong Kong witnessed in 2014 was blessed with two credible sobriquets.
—Antony Dapiran, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2019
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The fallout was significant enough to earn a sobriquet in the financial markets: the taper tantrum.
—Rich Miller, Bloomberg.com, 5 July 2017
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But even without the perfect sobriquet, each of us can make surprises happen.
—Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2021
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Duckworth had first tagged Trump with the sobriquet in January, after Trump accused Democrats of shutting down the government at the peril of the military.
—Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2018
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Thalaivar literally means leader and is one of the sobriquets used to describe Rajinikanth.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 June 2023
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His first sobriquet was Prince Cartier, a twist on his last name, but also indicative of a budding interest in fashion and luxury brands.
—Ben Detrick, New York Times, 29 June 2018
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Many, in interviews, decline to give their full names or offer a street sobriquet, for reasons that are probably obvious.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
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The sobriquet followed him throughout his career, which lasted through 1985 and included six All Star selections.
—Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
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Exclusive but not elite, it was stigmatized with the sobriquet University of Spoiled Children.
—Alex Bhattacharji, Town & Country, 10 July 2018
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The change to a warmer, more hospitable sounding sobriquet comes at a time when golf’s demographics continue to evolve to more closely resemble the overall U.S. population.
—Mike Dojc, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
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That, however, could easily be a sobriquet for Deception Pass Bridge.
—Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
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Now, Sadr is poised to assume a new sobriquet: kingmaker, after leading a political coalition to what appeared to be an early lead in national elections in Iraq.
—Washington Post, 14 May 2018
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This mysterious paucity of information about Vermeer led to Thoré’s sobriquet mon Sphinx.
—The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
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José Antonio’s real-life counterpart survived four attempts on his life, becoming a legend and gaining his epic sobriquet.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Apr. 2022
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Eventually taking her destiny into her own hands and adopting a sobriquet that expressed her life’s purpose, Sojourner Truth traveled the country telling the terrible truth of slavery.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
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Their show’s snappy title, wrapping recent art by 16 women within a familiar sobriquet shrouded with hostility in order to defuse it, is anything but a coincidence.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2021
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