byword in a sentence
Examples
- Davis Inlet quickly became a byword for horror.
- Today, femininity and romanticism are his bywords.
- Patience is not a byword on the bayou.
- Reinvention, another civic byword, is what Goodman would like for Las Vegas.
- Sierra Leone's 10-year civil war became a byword for brutality.
- To most of the world, the Titanic is a byword for shameful disaster.
- "Jarndyce and Jarndyce " has become a byword for seemingly interminable legal proceedings.
- Going " up Apron street " has become a byword for a criminal vanishing.
- I had been aware that Aristotle was a byword for crabbed, unintelligible Greek.
- The mutts, named Taro and Jiro, became bywords in Japan for fortitude.