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Example sentences for: christened

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In parallel with the roots of onomatopoeia (onoma `name' + poiein `to make or do') I have christened the effect onomatoplazia: onoma again + pladzein `to mislead or deceive.
Then in the third century, in the era of the Three Kingdoms, it was christened “Jianye.”
Ten years ago, George Lucas dubbed a two-headed Willow monster the Ebersisk and christened his villain General Kael.
Mr Rivers' assistant, Freddie Fly, wrote an Ode to the Grockle and the coaches bringing the tourists were christened grockle wagons .
It is comforting to find that Dolley Madison was christened Dorothea , and perhaps not so comforting that Molly shows up also in gun molls gangsters girlfriends.'