Example sentences for: surnames

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

  • Today I find it often used for two men with different surnames who do sometimes reside at the same address: "Messrs.

  • (How the Jewish names were treated is described in “The Jewish Family Names in the Oxford Dictionary of Surnames ,” Jewish Language Review 7, 1987, pp. 139-46.)

  • A further sign of fallout from the fundraising morass comes with the WP 's front-page revelation that several Asian-Americans with approved White House clearances were initially prevented from entering the grounds because security officials assumed their Asian surnames meant they were foreigners.

  • Dzhugashvili selected the Russian word for steel, stal', as the root of his revolutionary name, the - in and -ov (-off, -ev) suffixes of Russian surnames being only surname indicators.

  • According to de Felice's extensive studies of phone books and other records (much of his research is financed by SEAT , Italy's telephone service), the most common of all surnames in Calabria is Rotundo , which means obese.


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