How to Use epithet in a Sentence

epithet

noun

• Many were offended by her use of racial epithets.
• One day, a co-worker stole his phone and recorded a minute-long video rant filled with racial epithets and violent threats.
  — Louis Hansen, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2017
• Most of these epithets are reserved for those extra-curious Thrones-heads who have snapped spy photos and videos from set.
  — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 26 Mar. 2017
• The caller reported people being loud and yelling racial epithets.
  — Orange County Register, 15 Mar. 2017
• In the absence of a rigid class hierarchy, part of the answer was to isolate their kind within a series of epithets.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 25 July 2016
• After being drafted in 1943, Davis found the cheers replaced by epithets and blows hurled by white soldiers.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
• As things rapidly deteriorate, a brutal racial epithet will be hurled and secrets exploded.
  — Joanne Ostrow, The Know, 11 Apr. 2017
• A few months ago, after meeting with a case manager to fill out housing applications, Shaquille heard someone yell a racial epithet at him on a street corner.
  — Tim Requarth, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2017
• Lots of people had already written eloquently about the awfulness of racial epithets shouted from trucks, cotton balls left on a lawn, and an excrement swastika on a bathroom wall.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2016
• Mr. Trump’s about-face drew swift criticism, some of which featured an old Chinese epithet translated into English.
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2017
• There were so many of them, for one thing; the Westboro congregation turned out to be a young one, and even some of the lank-haired women holding signs and spitting epithets turned out be, on closer inspection, teenagers.
  — Tom Junod, Esquire, 20 Mar. 2014
• Gervais was referring to the epithet Gibson drunkenly used on a female cop during his 2006 arrest.
  — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2016
• The epithet was scrawled on both sides of the sign in red spray-paint.
  — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2022
• Or the Black man punches the white man in the face and calls him a racial epithet.
  — Douglas S. Lavine, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
• Rapier’s sons also said the man called the girl a racial epithet.
  — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
• But the other half of that epithet was, at the time, harder to deny.
  — Liana Schaffner, Teen Vogue, 27 Sep. 2018
• The last part of the lyric referenced a racial epithet for Black people.
  — Staff Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
• Their response: Spray-painting a racial epithet on the hood of Ron’s red car.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 17 Nov. 2020
• The suit claims this happened in front of a crowd of people and that Bieber also used racial epithets.
  — Colin Stutz, Billboard, 7 June 2018
• In the text exchange, the epithet is used to describe a photo of Blue Moon employees in the kitchen.
  — Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 21 June 2017
• The father’s triumphs came at a price, paid in epithets.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 29 Mar. 2020
• Maher didn't miss a chance to needle her with one of Trump's own epithets.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Esquire, 6 June 2017
• Rolling Stone points out Smith’s liner notes, which defend her use of the racial epithet.
  — Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
• The final image shows a white man without a shirt on who has a racial epithet and swastikas drawn on his back.
  — CBS News, 31 Oct. 2017
• People don’t know that one in three cowboys was Black, the very phrase cowboy was a racial epithet.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 19 June 2024
• At first, their white neighbors were hostile; his son was called a racial epithet.
  — Kari Lydersen, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
• Police say the student was beaten and called a racial epithet.
  — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2017
• The attorneys also questioned whether a deputy, in one of the body camera videos, called Melvin a racial epithet.
  — David Harris, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• The chip on her shoulder led her to write a grand statement song, its title a vulgar epithet.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• Then, another kid named Tommy, smaller than me, and in a wheelchair, screamed out a stream of longshoreman epithets that stunned everyone, especially the monster.
  — Bill Keane, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024