Sentence examples for it a byword from inspiring English sources

Now it has managed it: the Olympics scandal has made it a byword for bribery and corruption.

Nor did the Bay area's single-minded data-monetisers fuss about the fact that Modi had launched Digital India in India itself with a private party for his most fanatical troll-troopers – people who are, as the magazine Caravan put it, "a byword in online terror, hate and misogyny".

It's expensive, and it's a byword for the In Crowd.

Where once it was a byword for music shopping, it became – from this music buyer's perspective – a place of last resort.

Just like Blairism for Labour, which is more than just a reference to Tony Blair, it is a byword for telling voters it can be credible and trusted in power.

So infamous, in fact, that a few months after Taylor reported on Hillsborough, its Serious Crime Squad was disbanded; it remains a byword for police corruption to this day.

From the start, it had a reputation for degeneracy and corruption; by the 17th century, it was "a byword for pandemonium" and a place of "horror and chaos".

This arrangement survives because Germans have a knack for changing the way something works yet keeping its basic structure intact.Slowly but surelyTwenty years ago it was a byword for rigidity.

The Somme was not the first or last battle to deliver huge casualties for minimal gain, but thanks to the sheer ineptitude of its strategy and inexpressible scale of its slaughter, it has held a particular place in the conscience of Europe since shortly after it concluded, a byword for the appalling waste and futility of war.

Now it is a byword for betrayal".

For a long while it was "a byword for injustice, incompetence and...disreputable practice and intrigue".