How to Use "byword" with Example Sentences

1. It has become a byword for spiralling costs and delays .
2. Sadly , colombia 's capital now risks becoming a byword again , this time for municipal mismanagement .
3. At home and abroad china is a byword for fast-track development where yesterday 's paddy field is tomorrow 's factory highway or hotel .
4. Sure , they are desperate for " change " : with the economy reeling , politics gridlocked , young people dying in iraq and the bush administration a global byword for callous incompetence , huge numbers of americans have long believed their country is on the wrong track .