Sentence examples for byword of from inspiring English sources

Though hardly commercial, it anticipated a byword of modern advertising: forget the steak, sell the sizzle.

The term "failed state" was coined by President George W Bush to be the byword of US policy in Somalia.

The byword of the series is "To live is to choose," and in each episode, and each season, the war intensifies, options narrow and collaboration thickens.

Reviving a newly coined word from the heart of the recent recession, he said, "Staycation may become the byword of the summer".

And there is the byword of public service, whether in the ranks of the uniformed or in a cubicle or at the White House: It's Not About Me.

Its advice to take up the hyggelig activity of cycling is accompanied by a motivational quote from that byword of existential contentment, Sylvia Plath.

marketing and public-relations man, whose successful frozen-dessert introductions have made him a sort of summertime byword on the streets of Manhattan.

"Impossible", "unsafe" or "ridiculous" will be the bywords of the lazy or the boring.

Happy motoring, the bywords of an earlier era, have been replaced by driving fundamentalism.

Maintenance, quality control, equipment testing and inspection -- these had been described as bywords of nuclear safety.

Although secrecy and loyalty have been bywords of the Bush White House, its officials have been improbably loose-lipped upon leaving office, particularly in the memoirs they have written.