How to Use epithet in a Sentence

epithet

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  • Many were offended by her use of racial epithets.
  • Between the epithets and threats, there was one common theme.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
  • During the exchange, the suspect screamed a racial epithet and punched the older man in the body before jumping back on his Citi Bike and pedaling off, police said.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The epithet was scrawled on both sides of the sign in red spray-paint.
    — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2022
  • Or the Black man punches the white man in the face and calls him a racial epithet.
    — Douglas S. Lavine, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Rapier’s sons also said the man called the girl a racial epithet.
    — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
  • But the other half of that epithet was, at the time, harder to deny.
    — Liana Schaffner, Teen Vogue, 27 Sep. 2018
  • The last part of the lyric referenced a racial epithet for Black people.
    — Staff Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Their response: Spray-painting a racial epithet on the hood of Ron’s red car.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The suit claims this happened in front of a crowd of people and that Bieber also used racial epithets.
    — Colin Stutz, Billboard, 7 June 2018
  • In the text exchange, the epithet is used to describe a photo of Blue Moon employees in the kitchen.
    — Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 21 June 2017
  • The father’s triumphs came at a price, paid in epithets.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 29 Mar. 2020
  • Maher didn't miss a chance to needle her with one of Trump's own epithets.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Esquire, 6 June 2017
  • Rolling Stone points out Smith’s liner notes, which defend her use of the racial epithet.
    — Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The final image shows a white man without a shirt on who has a racial epithet and swastikas drawn on his back.
    — CBS News, 31 Oct. 2017
  • People don’t know that one in three cowboys was Black, the very phrase cowboy was a racial epithet.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 19 June 2024
  • At first, their white neighbors were hostile; his son was called a racial epithet.
    — Kari Lydersen, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Police say the student was beaten and called a racial epithet.
    — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The attorneys also questioned whether a deputy, in one of the body camera videos, called Melvin a racial epithet.
    — David Harris, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The chip on her shoulder led her to write a grand statement song, its title a vulgar epithet.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • After the show, Sasse also took to Twitter to voice his own regrets for not speaking up about the epithet in the moment.
    — Chris Barton, latimes.com, 3 June 2017
  • Though Hoichi survives and prospers, his epithet is a clue about which part of his body a feckless monk forgets to paint.
    — Christopher Carroll, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2021
  • The cult-writer epithet, in truth, has begun to seem like a bit of a distraction, even an anachronism.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • There was name-calling at Marshall; their center [mouthed] racial epithets on the floor.
    — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • His Web sites are astonishing; the epithet Mad Max comes to mind.
    — William Langewiesche, The Hive, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The story has no time to spare for those who might have finished the racial epithet, which is to say that Blackness is neither played up, played down or played off.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Jackson was getting off the bus when a boy several years older than him shouted that epithet at him from the back of the bus.
    — al, 16 Feb. 2022
  • There is an epithet thrown at those in the GOP deemed less than 100% pure: Republican in name only.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • One day, a co-worker stole his phone and recorded a minute-long video rant filled with racial epithets and violent threats.
    — Louis Hansen, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Back then, the epithet was a creation of the white world's imagination, a naked expression of white fear.
    — Michael Kleber-Diggs Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 29 Jan. 2021

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