How to Use eponymous in a Sentence

eponymous

adjective
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  • In the late 1800s, the island was used to mine manganese, the eponymous red rock, for paint pigment.
    — Heather Knight, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Dries Van Noten will no longer be helmed by its eponymous founder.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The actress-host has set Oct. 16 as the return date for the fourth season of her eponymous daytime talk show.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The eponymous hero of Virgina Woolf’s novel went to sleep as a man and woke up, a week later, a woman.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Jenny Patinkin is a makeup artist and founder of an eponymous beauty tool brand.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Attire apart, Piotr Beczala is the eponymous Grail knight of dreams.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Most of this biting satire takes place at the eponymous estate, where Pamela showed up for a weekend and never left.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The firm is a travel platform that was spun off from the eponymous credit card company.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Schindler, for example, was in jail on charges of bribery at the time the eponymous list of workers whose lives would be saved was put together.
    — Emily Tamkin, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Each year since, tang yuan has been the staple dish of Yuan Xiao’s eponymous festival.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The eponymous label ensures good style is within reach and makes great clothes as a result of their mission.
    — Joseph Cheatham, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Harrison, 33, joined the cast in the third season as Laramie, a barrel racer whose presence in the eponymous ranch's bunkhouse stirs up trouble.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Think of Harriet, the eponymous spy created by Louise Fitzhugh.
    — Nell McShane Wulfhart, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The showing’s eponymous painting, which Van Vliet painted in oil in 1994, is visible to Harvey’s right in the video.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The publication downgraded René et Maxime Meilleur from three stars to two; the restaurant is run by the eponymous father-and-son team in the Savoie region.
    — Tara Patel, Fortune Europe, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The first Amiri Prize was awarded to Lou Badger, founder and creative director of her eponymous slow fashion brand.
    — Ezreen Benissan, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The newcomer is the second vessel over 78 feet that the family-run yard has designed with Cor D. Rover’s eponymous firm.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
  • This eponymous romantic is Cashel Greville Ross, born in 1799.
    — Daneet Steffens, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In the eponymous piece Moving Through, from 1975, nine panels are lined up horizontally, like stills from a movie.
    — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Dar has replaced Eleven College Avenue at the eponymous address.
    — Laura Ness, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The heart of the story is Chona, who runs the novel's eponymous grocery store, and who helps Nate, a Black usher at her husband's theater, protect a young orphan.
    — The Editors, Town & Country, 31 July 2023
  • Sunday Riley, founder of the eponymous skin care brand, adds that niceness includes not feeling shame for your skin’s current state.
    — ELLE, 7 Apr. 2023
  • While the eponymous cascade is the most popular and easy to access, there are many more in and around the park, including Elakala Falls, a series of four rushing drops along Shays Run.
    — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
  • In the eponymous Tim Burton film, Edward Scissorhands wore a leather jumpsuit full of belts and buckles, had disheveled hair, pale skin, and, of course, his scissors for hands.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Jerry Seinfeld is teasing that something is in the works with his beloved eponymous sitcom.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
  • And also his story about a patient named Jack who took a shot of an eponymous liquor before every round of dialysis.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • The eponymous Moana is hand-picked — or wave-picked — by the ocean to sail out and save the people of Motunui by restoring the heart of Te Fiti, which causes a ripple of non-stop action and 100 minutes of fun.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Their eponymous firm invests across the country in agriculture, industries and the health sector.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
  • Oh, the book hadn’t come out yet, and the eponymous market concept was years from taking hold when Hill, then a University of Michigan left-hander, got a call from the A’s on draft day, 2002.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • Roseanne Barr still has some — okay, lots — of hard feelings towards Sara Gilbert, who played her daughter on both the original and reboot of her eponymous sitcom.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 18 May 2023

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