9 example sentences using sobriquet.
Sobriquet used in a sentence
Sobriquet in a sentence as a noun
I hate to apply the "fanboy" sobriquet, but he has earned it.
And if you're really lucky your peers will prefix your name with a sobriquet of high honour as cool as "helicopter".
That particular sobriquet was mine, after he made the mistake of letting his car windows get a bit too dirty.
It’s time to take on all the qualities of the sobriquet not just the status and the salary that was appropriated.
This was a link that was sent to me directly by a colleague, and I've already used two of the tips, and expect to use more before the end of the day. I found many of them mundane, but some of them surprising and truly worthy of the sobriquet "hack", and hence the submission.
At least not if you had a system with any peripherals; the cables were notoriously flaky, to the point that the problems are on record in the Wikipedia page, as an explanation for the "Trash-80" sobriquet.
As you've quoted, from that decision, the judgment refers to an "ambiguous and equivocal reference to a 'lawyer dog,'" which pretty plainly suggests that the judge has deemed "lawyer-dog" a lexical unit rather than interpreting "dog" as a sobriquet.
The second process, confirmation bias, reassures you that each sighting is further proof of your impression that the thing has gained overnight omnipresence.> The considerably catchier sobriquet Baader-Meinhof phenomenon was invented in 1994 by a commenter on the St. Paul Pioneer Press’ online discussion board, who came up with it after hearing the name of the ultra-left-wing German terrorist group twice in 24 hours.
[Update: there was "gratitude" - my mistake; sorry]Besides the self-aggrandizing "we did it first" tone of the whole post, here are a few more parts I'd love to see future farewell posts skip:> it’s often the pioneers who end up with arrows in their backsUnless your point is that you were a company who tried to take what wasn't yours and was punished for it... this phrase is awkward-at-best.> I called these “Friends of ClusterHQ” by the sobriquet “FoCkers”The use of "sobriquet" doesn't make your adolescent play on words classy.> The big successes are literally impossible without the many failures.
Sobriquet definitions
a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim"
See also: nickname moniker cognomen soubriquet byname