How to Use byword in a Sentence

byword

noun

• Mom's favorite byword is “You can get more flies with honey than with vinegar”.
• Shedding policies, known as depopulation, de-pop for short, or shrinking, is a byword at the insurer of last resort.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024
• The design harks back to the classic audio systems that made Bang & Olufsen a byword for cool and chic in the 1970s.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
• Their names were a byword for the very idea of Entertainment writ large.
  — Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
• Good morning, Resilience has to be the business byword of 2023.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
• Seattle is a chameleonic city where change is a byword.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Nov. 2022
• Now Bucha is a byword for war crimes, like Srebrenica or My Lai.
  — Time, 14 Apr. 2022
• My byword on that is that endings need to be beginnings.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2020
• The months-long battle for Bakhmut has become the latest byword of destruction in the conflict.
  — Guy Davies, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2023
• Timbuktu has become a byword for the farthest corner of the earth.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2016
• Today the Marbella Club is a byword for luxury in the sun.
  — Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
• In the past decade, the nation’s rail network had become a byword for corruption, delays and filth.
  — Ismail Dilawar, Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Blackpool, a once-lively seaside resort in the north-west, is a byword for decline.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Sports’ byword, over the past decade, has been efficiency.
  — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2019
• Detroit would emerge smaller, but no longer a byword for decline.
  — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
• The key to a decent production of this show is detail — and that's Weinstein's byword here.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• Many of the venues are completed, Tokyo has abundant infrastructure and Japan is a byword for know-how.
  — Stephen Wade, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
• One of its largest cities has become a byword for racial injustice — and for deadly riots.
  — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
• Yes, that Hitler, the one who presided over an empire of mass murder, whose name is essentially a byword for evil.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2019
• Bucha, a leafy suburb of Kyiv where the couple shared a house made of brownstone, has become a byword for Russian atrocities.
  — Shira Pinson, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022
• India has long been a byword for overpopulation, but this is about to change.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
• As for those Keystone Kops — the silent-movie characters who became a byword for chaos — John Koenig’s grandfather was one.
  — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2021
• Robinhood, the brokerage that has become a byword for the boom in retail trading, is planning to go public.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2021
• Xiao Ke predicted: [the party will be] condemned through the ages and [this event] will go down in history as a byword for infamy.
  — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• The story spun here is indeed that of the clan whose name became a byword for world-shattering Wall Street hubris in 2008, when the mighty firm of Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 13 July 2018
• Ibiza in Spain's Balearic Islands is a byword for nightlife, drawing cool crowds who seriously like to party.
  — Chris Dwyer, CNN, 15 July 2021
• Trust is the byword, Ms. Latta explained at the show’s preview, along with an avoidance of micromanaging.
  — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
• Both firms became bywords for entire categories: startups now claim to be Airbnb for dogs or Uber for doctors.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• But for just as long, his name and claims had become bywords for suspicious police encounters.
  — Meher Ahmad, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
• The riverside market town, Totnes, has become a byword for an outdoorsy, artistic community—catnip to the tourists who bunch around the estate agent windows.
  — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024