Don McCullin, a byword for courage as well as awesome photography, suffered a bad thigh wound in Cambodia in 1970.
Just as Cadillac used to be synonymous with luxury and BMW with sportiness, Toyota was a byword for quality and reliability.
The dual exchange-rate will remind many of its 1980s predecessor, run by an exchange-control body known as Recadi which became a byword for massive-and unpunished-corruption.
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
For all its peculiarities, the car industry is no dinosaur-toyota, for instance, is a byword for manufacturing excellence.
20 then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
This anomalous Nazi-Sponsored haven for Jews, also called Theresienbad, is almost a byword in Europe.
He was also a writer. His autobiographical musings about his more than 100 lovers made his name a byword for a man who loves too much.
His inexplicable debts were a byword in his circle.
Chen Shimei is a byword of men who betrayed their love in China. The vast performances in Chinese operas spread the story of Chen Shimei widely throughout China.
This success made Daqing a byword for industrial zeal and heroic self-sacrifice in the name of the revolution.
The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Here, we together a byword to life.
She became the byword of the village.
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