Example sentences for: names

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

  • You write, in your review of the Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names [XXI, 3, 18], It seems that in the southeastern US words beginning with shr - are pronounced as if spelled sr -, something I never knew.

  • The Chinese do not distinguish l from r in Western words or names, for example, so that these letters when transliterated may appear as either.

  • When Brazil reformed its economy several years ago, the former name of its currency was changed from cruzeiro to cruzado , the meaning `little cross' to `crusade' being of less importance than the similarity of the names in Portuguese.

  • FELDMAN: Of giving kids lousy names ...

  • Taken together, American place names are a unique primary source, a record of our cultural memory.


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