nickname

Example Sentences

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"This gave him the nickname among his socialite friends as the gull's friend," Neave says.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

Given the Oslo patient's robust health, Troseid suggested that his nickname was no longer suitable.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

In 1991 Army veteran and divorced dad Anselmo “Tony” Ortiz, who also goes by the nickname Rocky, was working full time and attending college.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

She earns her nickname because of an innate “loftiness” that makes her “stately and stern but present.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

His nickname came from a firework incident in the Fontainebleau, the famous forest southeast of Paris.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse