Example sentences for: flavia

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

  • But outside Venice, Italians did not begin to adopt hereditary surnames until the 14th and 15th centuries, a bit later than most of the rest of Europe, according to Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, authors of the addictive A Dictionary of Surnames (Oxford University Press, 1988).

  • Flavia Waters Champe’s interpretation is that the dance was brought to New Mexico by Spanish and Mexican settlers who came with De Vargas at the time of the second conquest in 1692.

  • Incidentally, the reviewer of A Dictionary of First Names , by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, is wrong to state that “they choose to ignore Hugo .” They don't: it is included as a variant of Hugh .

  • Inevitably, one compares the main entries with those in similar recent works, such as Leslie Dunkling and William Gosling's Everyman's Dictionary of First Names (1983) and Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges' A Dictionary of First Names (1990).


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