Example sentences for: surnames

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

  • 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.

  • There was also a fashion that men with common surnames were known by their mothers' names.

  • Such names must of course be included, though the people most anxious to discover something about the original meaning of their surnames are invariably those who bear the rarer names.

  • Not all of these surnames are terribly common, but they are all real, appearing in telephone books in the U.S., England, and Italy.

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


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