Example sentences for: appellation

How can you use “appellation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nor does Soccer Guy seem like an appellation that's likely to go down in the annals of crime alongside Sammy the Bull--or even Paulie Walnuts, that hit man on the Sopranos.

  • USAT describes Whitman as "once considered a future presidential candidate"--an odd appellation since pulling out a second term over a strong challenger would seem to enhance her prospects.

  • Prudie also finds the appellation "Ms."

  • The predilection for the flesh of Strombus gigas, the queen conch, by the white Bahamians and their relatives on the Florida Keys is cited by many etymologists in explaining the origin of the appellation Conch for a `native or inhabitant of the Florida Keys' or a `Bahamian.

  • Onomastics is basically the science of worrying about names and Monsieur Tesnières--an appellation, as it happens, regrettably free of all sexual or scatological interest--is much exercised by the fact that three centuries from now 97 per cent of all French family names will have vanished, with only 7500 surviving out of the estimated present stock of 250,000.


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