Example sentences for: onomastic

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

  • The author explicitly refrains from examples of nomination, in code names, code-numbered names, anonyms, pet names, name-changing, and other onomastic oddities in this material (p. 285).

  • Part 2 of the first section opens with a reprint of Allen Walker Read's onomastic history of the Rocky Mountains, which is followed by a very lengthy paper on No Names in the United States.

  • Another group of names falls into the either-or category, in which a well-researched onomastic history could consign a family to either comforting averageness or ignominy.

  • Just a little effort on the part of people with names like this--put Cox with Willing , for example, and something has to happen--could take some of the strain off the neurotically prolific Martins, Bernards , and Petits and send a welcome ray of sunshine into the gloom-filled halls of the French Onomastic Society.

  • In any event, this book is well known to all who are familiar with onomastic literature, as, indeed, are other works by George Stewart, American Place-Names and Names on the Globe (reviewed in VERBATIM by W.F.H.


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