Words similar to namesake

Example sentences for: namesake

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

Like her TV namesake, Roseanne was trailer trash.
Sensitive to the continuing need for guidance among Slate readers, however, Prudence has prevailed upon her niece and namesake, Prudence, to assume the responsibility.
Marlborough Road is now, I suspect, a street, to distinguish it from its namesake by St. James's Palace.
They follow their namesake's aphorism that revolutions are like birth: The forceps shouldn't be applied too early.