Example sentences for: surnames

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

  • Most of those charged, says the LAT , have Armenian surnames.

  • 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.

  • He introduced the Western idea of surnames (until then Turks had a single name) and made everyone choose a family name, which they had to hand down to their children.

  • Another group of names--a group Hanks and Hodges call imperative surnames, or names formed by the joining of a verb-stem and a noun--displays an especially playful method of Italian scurrility.

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


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