6 sentences with 'dubbed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dubbed and other words derived from it.
• « The British responded to the uprising, which they dubbed "The Mutiny", by massacring entire Indian villages, while the Sepoy rebels attacked every British person they encountered, including the families of British officials. Eventually, British troops and loyal Sepoy forces defeated the rebels and restored order. »
• « This was the context in which Europeans dubbed the conflict "the war to end all wars". It was inconceivable to most that it could happen again; the costs had simply been too great to bear. »
• « In 1956, Nikita Khrushchev gave a speech to communist party leaders that was later dubbed a 'secret speech' - it was not broadcast to the general public, but Khrushchev allowed it to be leaked to the state-controlled press. »
• « In 1958 an insurgency broke out in Vietnam, dubbed Viet Cong ("Vietnamese communists") by Diem's government, supported by the North, which led the US to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and soon an increasing number of military advisors to the South. »
• « But researchers in Wales have developed what they have dubbed the "superbug": a micro-organism that proliferates happily, feeding on all those substances that poison the soil, transforming them into a completely harmless "something else". »
• « Martin Van Buren, who championed the Eatons and organised social gatherings with them, became close to Jackson, who came to have a group of informal advisors that included Van Buren and was dubbed the Kitchen Cabinet. »