Sentence examples for earn the description from inspiring English sources

Still, if they meet, it seems likely that Glazkov, not Klitschko, would earn the description that announcers usually reserve for boxers who fight hard and in vain: "tough as nails".

Some definitely earn the description of unexploded, Cushing says.

He called the play a 'comedy' and, occasionally, it earns the description.

And it was only around the turn of the millennium that developers started to speculate on factories (the more unscrupulous ones earned the description "raiders").

It would be unkind to call the duke a chinless wonder, even if his neck did end at his lower lip, but his son more than earned the description giggling buffoon.

Of all the bizarre forms of animal copulation, only one has earned the description "cephalo-traumatic".

He stood head and shoulders above every other batsman and, taking all factors into consideration, worthily earned the description of the finest present-day batsman in the world".

But these distinctive touches are enough, in the fluid taxonomy of New York architecture, to earn them the description of Dutch (or its close corollary, Flemish).

Famous more for his isolation-friendly offensive system – a steadfast reliance on Joe Johnson helped earn it the description "Iso Joe" – and point guard leashes that bordered on choke collars, Woodson leaned heavily on his stars, and rarely delved very deeply into his bench.

Anderson's men mutilated the bodies, earning the guerrillas the description of "incarnate fiends" from the Columbia Missouri Statesman.

Higher Ground's kids score better on state evaluations than similar students in traditional public schools, earning the school the description of "beating the odds," but they still lag far behind German Immersion's.