How To Use Sobriquet In A Sentence
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Ne donnez iamais de sobriquet, soit dans le jeu, ou bien hors du jeu.
George Washington's Rules of Civility
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Antsy of late over his management style, investors and analysts have tossed about sobriquets including "megalomaniac" and "acquisition crazy," with some saying his spending must be reined in.
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Von Kluge now demonstrated the passive-aggressive cleverness that had earned him the malicious although probably justified sobriquet of “Der kluge Hans,” clever Hans.
Deathride
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From this day you must learn to embrace all manner of millinery or else relinquish your "coquette" sobriquet.
How about that Prada turban?
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Pine and Ting looked on in fascination until Greg stormed out under a barrage of slanderous sobriquets.
THE MANANA MAN
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Yet this lack of acquisitiveness, this disregard for hoarding, has earned indigenous communities sobriquets like ‘uncivilized’ or ‘primitive’.
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Early on Sunday morning last, a person who lives at Brampton, near Appleby and who we only know by the sobriquet of ‘Cock Robin’, narrowly escaped being drowned.
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Sobriquet is the French form yet "soubriquet" has made the dictionary as a variant.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1
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His size and powerful running off the back of the scrum and in open play have earned him his sobriquet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yes, people like "The Nonplussed Minnesotan Commuter" may scoff, but our local media is already dubbing this storm the "Snowpocalypse," or "Snowmageddon," or "God's Dandruff," or any number of irritatingly hyperbolized sobriquets, and life here has slowed to a virtual trackstand.
Blizzard of Odd: Pedaling to the Bitter End
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John Mullan discusses Charles Edward Stuart's sobriquets, but we should remember that most of his followers in 1745 were Gaelic-speakers.
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Check out "The Joy of Man's Desiring" a book by Jean Giono sobriquet (so-bree-kay) noun, masculine nickname
Sobriquet - French Word-A-Day
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The wild tantivy boy had vanished, and the sobriquet of "Tavern Knight" was fast becoming
The Tavern Knight
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Iverson famously gave himself the sobriquet ‘The Answer’, tattooing the words on his left arm for emphasis.
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It should certainly have administrative headquarters worthy of the sobriquet.
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Every dictionary worth its spurs notes that the word hotspur was the sobriquet of Sir Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland, killed in 1403 in the rebellion against Henry IV.
No Uncertain Terms
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At the triumphal procession through the streets of Rome that followed in 44, Messalina was permitted to follow her husband’s chariot in a mule-drawn carpentum, ahead of the victorious generals from the campaign, and the couple’s son, hitherto known by the name Tiberius Claudius Caesar Germanicus, received the new sobriquet Britannicus in recognition of his father’s great victory.
Caesars’ Wives
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His on-field partnership with fellow Galway great Frank Stockwell saw the pair earn the sobriquet of the ‘Terrible Twins’ - a name borne of their almost telepathic understanding.
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From his staff he earned the sobriquet "Mumbles".
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Frank, as his sobriquet implies, is a giant of a man.
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For the crew who had to lie flat on their bellies in less than a metre of space, the tank earned its sobriquet as a mobile crematorium.
Times, Sunday Times
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He laughs when asked about his new sobriquet of Britain's richest man.
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The phrase "The Facebook Username debacle" is first used, and becomes the preferred sobriquet for the feature forevermore. 70% of commenters mention that "Facebook Username" can be abbreviated "FU", and each thinks he is the first to think of it.
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The dashes looked like ants column; thus, this effect earned the colorful sobriquet marching ants.
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It's a sobriquet that conjures up visions of rich but not-very-fit middle-aged men hauling on very large fishing rods and imagining they're Ernest Hemingway, the ultimate he-man.
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If Olubamiwo allows O'Connell to make their contest a boxing match, it's unlikey he'll have the tools to compete with the Plymouth man but "The War Machine" didn't get such a sobriquet from trying to outslick adversaries in the ring.
East Side Boxing
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His temper tantrums have acquired him the further sobriquet of ‘Kung-fu Kahn’ after he merrily throttled one opponent and bit a chunk out of another.
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He earned the sobriquet from an uncanny ability to always pick the right stocks.
Times, Sunday Times
