EPITHET in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for EPITHET, such as:
1. Bonacieux, addressing this epithet to her husband.
2. The epithet, as may be easily understood, resounded to the very bottom of d'Artagnan's heart.
3. They had a rapid altercation, in which they fastened upon each other various strange epithets.
4. This cold officer upon a monument, who dropped epithets unconcernedly down, would be finer as a dead man, he thought.
2. The epithet, as may be easily understood, resounded to the very bottom of d'Artagnan's heart.
3. They had a rapid altercation, in which they fastened upon each other various strange epithets.
4. This cold officer upon a monument, who dropped epithets unconcernedly down, would be finer as a dead man, he thought.
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Meanings and Examples of EPITHET
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epithet
n. word or phrase characteristically used to describe a person or thing
Classic Sentence:
1 Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by the passing stroller with the epithet: melancholy, the apparently objectless promenades of the dreamer.
2 Many might take for their device the epithet STRONG, which formed the second part of his motto, but very few gentlemen could lay claim to the FAITHFUL, which constituted the first.
3 Bonacieux, addressing this epithet to her husband.
4 The epithet, as may be easily understood, resounded to the very bottom of d'Artagnan's heart.
5 We need hardly say that many of those who gave him this epithet repeated it because they had heard it, and did not even know what it meant.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
Context Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
6 Elizabeth could hardly help laughing at so convenient a proposal; yet was really vexed that her mother should be always giving him such an epithet.
7 Bestow not on me, Sir Knight," she said, "the epithet of noble.
8 Napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield and, addressing him, again used the epithet "young man" that was connected in his memory with Prince Andrew.
9 That were impossible," returned the young man; "he called you by a thousand endearing epithets, that I may not presume to use, but to the justice of which, I can warmly testify.
10 They had a rapid altercation, in which they fastened upon each other various strange epithets.
11 This cold officer upon a monument, who dropped epithets unconcernedly down, would be finer as a dead man, he thought.
12 The child still struggled and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet.
13 The shop-boys in the neighbourhood had long been in the habit of branding Noah in the public streets, with the ignominious epithets of 'leathers,' 'charity,' and the like; and Noah had bourne them without reply.
14 The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and stormy.
Example Sentence:
1 So many kings of France were named Charles that you could tell one apart only by his epithet: Charles the Wise was someone far different from Charles the Fat.