Sentence example with the word 'byword'

byword

adage, burning shame, current saying, epigram, gnome, laughingstock, nomen, proverb, shame, tautonym, wisdom

Definition n. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

Last update: September 10, 2015


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To do things "railroad fashion" is now the byword; and it is worth the while to be warned so often and so sincerely by any power to get off its track.   [Please select]

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"--for this had grown a byword through the town."   [Please select]

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"I'm not sure of what you mean by a byword."'   [Please select]

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Your name's a byword for all that's square an' big an' splendid.   [Please select]

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How is it that I haven't been the mock and byword of Europe.   [Please select]

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It was a byword that Vigo minded no man's ire but the duke's.'   [Please select]

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Not so with young Donald, however--wherefore it was a byword in Port Agnew that Donald was his father's son, a veritable chip of the old block.   [Please select]

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