How to Use epithet in a Sentence

epithet

noun

• Many were offended by her use of racial epithets.
• 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
• 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 father’s triumphs came at a price, paid in epithets.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 29 Mar. 2020
• Rolling Stone points out Smith’s liner notes, which defend her use of the racial epithet.
  — Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
• At first, their white neighbors were hostile; his son was called a racial epithet.
  — Kari Lydersen, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Though Hoichi survives and prospers, his epithet is a clue about which part of his body a feckless monk forgets to paint.
  — Christopher Carroll, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2021
• The cult-writer epithet, in truth, has begun to seem like a bit of a distraction, even an anachronism.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• The story has no time to spare for those who might have finished the racial epithet, which is to say that Blackness is neither played up, played down or played off.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
• Jackson was getting off the bus when a boy several years older than him shouted that epithet at him from the back of the bus.
  — al, 16 Feb. 2022
• There is an epithet thrown at those in the GOP deemed less than 100% pure: Republican in name only.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• Back then, the epithet was a creation of the white world's imagination, a naked expression of white fear.
  — Michael Kleber-Diggs Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 29 Jan. 2021
• That's when four white men rushed toward them, shouting racial epithets.
  — al.com, 19 June 2019
• That divine epithet found its way into the British press in 1840 when Grisi performed in London to great acclaim.
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• The first time the chant is heard, a PA announcement will be made and those suspected and using the epithet will be removed from the stadium.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2019
• His team down by 18 after two quarters, Popovich’s halftime speech went heavy on the four-letter epithets.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2023
• Sunny Nwazue is also the recipient of this epithet in the book.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
• The employee, Brandon Brackins, said he was almost hit by a driver who spit on him and called him a racial epithet.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 June 2020
• Both sides charge the other with nasty rhetoric, justifying their own epithets as a means of self-defense, or the calling-out of racist ideas and language.
  — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2023
• Although it hasn't been confirmed, People reports that Prince Philip was believed to be the last person to ever use the epithet.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 18 Apr. 2021
• And some of his friends have been slammed with a racial epithet in similar situations.
  — David Tuller, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2021
• The episode, written by the late David Mills, understands that the epithet is only scratching the surface of Sipowicz’s bigotry.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
• Black children were greeted at school with racial epithets.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2019
• In December, a racial epithet was spray-painted on the home of a star high school quarterback in Allen, prompting the family to change schools.
  — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
• After all, no one wants to try to sell soda between pro-Hitler memes, or be asked to join a dating service alongside racial epithets in all caps.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• Newton’s sour comment stuck in the minds of locals, who started using the epithet themselves.
  — Ali Winston, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024