7 sentences with 'nickname'

Example sentences and phrases with the word nickname and other words derived from it.

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« Thatcher acquired the nickname "the Iron Lady" for her outspoken manner and refusal to compromise. »
« The Austrian press was quick to nickname him "Ótzi", referring to the Ótztaler Alps, where the body was found. »
« Perhaps this plant owes its nickname "Venus" to Botticelli's painting of the young goddess emerging from the shells of a seashell. »
« She earned the nickname "Bloody Mary" for the numerous executions of Protestants, often by burning alive, which she ordered during her reign. »
« The "star" among the plants, whose charms none of the planet's botanists can resist, is the "fly-hunting Venus", nickname of the endangered Dionaea muscipula. »
« Start with something unimportant, like a nickname you were given at school or a stash of chocolates you have in your office. Gradually make more important confessions. »
« Samuel Wilson (1766-1854) had earned the nickname Uncle Sam from the connection that his employees and some soldiers had made between his name Samuel and the initials U.S., which he painted on every box of provisions and which actually identified the United States. »

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