Sentence examples for in byword from inspiring English sources

It will tell us whether this is a hard enough horse to back up a course-record-breaking performance with another peak effort; whether he is as capable of conquering an entirely different and more talented clutch of older horses in Byword, Twice Over and Rip van Winkle; whether he is adaptable enough to excel at a course where he inexplicably finished tailed-off last year.

As such, the characters in the show — which revolves around fictional Vice President Selina Meyer (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her often-hapless, always-cursing staff — have quickly become an in-the-know byword for certain D.C. archetypes, in the same way that "Sex and the City" captured a whole generation of women as Carries or Mirandas.

A relevant piece of advice may be contained in a byword that emerged from "Fawlty Towers," the British television comedy series.

In the United States, federal, state and local government budgets have been squeezed, while in Europe, austerity has become the byword in many countries.

Wiener Waltzer was fifth to Byword in the Prince of Wales at Royal Ascot in 2010.

In these cases, consistent with the "garbage in, garbage out" byword, the MRC procedure could not distil any useful information from the individual runs.

The byword in sport these days is "marginal gains" – tiny, incremental adjustments in kit, technique and training that, when added together, make for big improvements.

He has stamped a personal style on some of the finest restaurants in the world, trained a dozen chefs to Michelin-star level and become a byword in gorgeous cuisine without resorting to television shows or succumbing to celebrity egomania.

They've become a byword in uncivilised behaviour patterns, cognate with modern students or darts players.

He quickly became a byword in both the fashion and social worlds.

You were meant to be alone — "autonomous" was a byword — in wordless communion with art, as with a sunset.