sobriquet

Example Sentences

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Bouldin runs a youth chess club and for decades has worked with young people, both on and off duty — and sometimes with snacks — earning her the sobriquet “Detective Cookie.”

From Seattle Times

The catchphrase also echoed the sobriquet for the railway’s indefatigable founder, who helped turn Seattle into a metropolis — yet whose name is little seen or celebrated today.

From Seattle Times

On one overly simplistic level, “Turning Red” evokes and gives new meaning to the once-widespread sexist sobriquet for menstruation: the Curse.

From Washington Post

In fact, the rainforest stores 44% of all the carbon dioxide in our national forests across the country, earning it the sobriquet “Fort Knox of carbon.”

From Seattle Times

That, at least, is the sobriquet that has long attached itself to the Old Line State, a.k.a. the Free State, the Crab State, the Good Charlotte State or whatever else you want to call it.

From Washington Post