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Example sentences for "called after"

  • He was leaving the Inn when Armitage called after him: "I beg your pardon, Mr. Everett, but will you be out late?

  • Maggie, you drive me mad," he called after her, but his voice was hoarse, and it did not reach her ears.

  • The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

  • Defn: The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.

  • The Anglo-Saxon form of the Scandinavian god Odin; Wednesday is called after him.

  • He afterwards became so powerful that the whole peninsula was called after him “the island of Pelops.

  • The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.

  • Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A.

  • Isn't it awful and exciting to be called after a heathen idol?

  • The name of the other boy is Orion, and he is called after a cluster of stars.

  • Brownlow-hill was so called after Mr. Lawrence Brownlow, a gentleman who held much property thereabout.

  • The Salt houses occupied the site of Orford-street (called after Mr. Blackburne's seat in Cheshire).

  • All that is known of this saint is that a fair, called after him, was held formerly at Kilmadock in Perthshire, on January 31st.

  • The island of Inchbrayock in the Esk, near Montrose, is called after him.

  • Here he is said by some to have been buried, but his relics must in that case have been afterwards translated to Lismore; for his remains were honoured in the cathedral there, which was H {98} called after him.

  • The lobelia was so called after Matthias de Lobel, a Flemish botanist and physician to King James I.

  • Cashmere, a favourite smooth woollen material, is called after Cashmir, in India.

  • Lives of the Saints called "Acta Sanctorum," which was continued by others, called after him "Bollandists.

  • His route lay across the plain of the Portneuf, a tributary stream of Snake River, called after an unfortunate Canadian trapper murdered by the Indians.

  • Hence they toiled on to Godin River; so called after an Iroquois hunter in the service of Sublette, who was murdered there by the Blackfeet.

  • I called after him, and even followed him to the head of the stairs, to explain and apologize; but in vain: I never saw him angry before.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anything about; armed with; bad luck; called after; called aloud; called attention; called back; called because; called her; called himself; called natural; called reformation; called the; called their; called them; called together; called upon; carbon print; commercial treaties; distinctly seen; double layer; here referred; often applied; sexual selection; shod hoofs; with white