How to Use sobriquet in a Sentence

sobriquet

noun

• Some of the Elite Eight—is that a better sobriquet?—operate in different corners of the world from one another.
  — Fortune, 31 Aug. 2017
• Among his Tour colleagues Donald has earned the sobriquet Mr. Plod.
  — Harry Hurt, Town & Country, 8 Apr. 2014
• Though Royko would later retract it, the sobriquet stuck.
  — Mark Brilliant, Washington Post, 10 July 2020
• 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
• Her mother’s sobriquet is Black Mamba: a snake that often counts mice among its prey.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2020
• Critics called it the Blue Whale, a sobriquet Pelli embraced.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2019
• Over the years, a variety of sobriquets have been used to describe overweight ballplayers.
  — Bill Swank, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The protest movement Hong Kong witnessed in 2014 was blessed with two credible sobriquets.
  — Antony Dapiran, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2019
• The fallout was significant enough to earn a sobriquet in the financial markets: the taper tantrum.
  — Rich Miller, Bloomberg.com, 5 July 2017
• But even without the perfect sobriquet, each of us can make surprises happen.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Thalaivar literally means leader and is one of the sobriquets used to describe Rajinikanth.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• The sobriquet followed him throughout his career, which lasted through 1985 and included six All Star selections.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
• Exclusive but not elite, it was stigmatized with the sobriquet University of Spoiled Children.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Town & Country, 10 July 2018
• 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
• That, however, could easily be a sobriquet for Deception Pass Bridge.
  — Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• Thalaivar translates literally as leader and is one of the laudatory sobriquets used to describe Rajinikanth.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
• 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
• This mysterious paucity of information about Vermeer led to Thoré’s sobriquet mon Sphinx.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024