Example sentences for: better-known

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  • You might also have him off for TDA (Taking and Driving Away, now replaced by Taking a conveyance ), or for OPD (Outraging Public Decency), IPO (Impersonating a Police Officer), or for the better-known ABH or GBH (assaults occasioning Actual or Grievous Bodily Harm).

  • On the west side of the Plaça Major is Plaça de Marqués Palmer; sandwiched among chic leather and footwear shops are two excellent examples of modernista (Catalan Art Nouveau) architecture: Can Forteza Rei and L’Àguila, whose iron grill work and broken-tile flourishes are similar to better-known modernista buildings found in Barcelona.

  • Italian is better-known as the language of lovers, of course, which is one reason why people honeymoon there.

  • Although some people use the better-known term cementerio, meaning “cemetery,” camposanto is a word still used in many families.

  • Could your contributor, notwithstanding his correct identification of the background to Three Men on the Bummel , be confusing it with the better-known Three Men in a Boat , where the scenery is decidedly fluvial?


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