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Example sentences for "called because"

  • He was so called because he wore "no shirt of mail," but went to battle unharnessed.

  • So called because it was the place where the devil cast the bleeding heart of lady Hatton (wife of the dancing chancellor), after he had torn it out of her body with his claws.

  • Bacchus was so called because at the death of his mother during gestation, Jupiter put the foetus into his own thigh for the rest of the time, when the infant Bacchus was duly brought forth.

  • John, so called because it exists in a much larger proportion in the wax of the Myrica cerifera.

  • EIDER-DOWN, is a kind of precious down, so called because it is obtained from the EIDER-duck.

  • The pommel (paumelle) is so called because it clothes the palm of the hand, and performs its functions.

  • The serpentine is so called because it has something of the glaze and greenness of a snake's skin.

  • Lyonesse is the realm of Leon in Brittany, so-called because founded by colonists from Caerleon, who fled from the swords of the Saxons.

  • Mahaddahrmaphalam is true knowledge, so called because, of its superiority to heaven, etc.

  • The faculty called understanding is so called because of the knowledge and comprehension it gives of unknown and incomprehensible things.

  • Righteousness (Dharma) is so called because it upholds all creatures.

  • Rathantara is another name for certain Samans, which are so called because of men being able to cross the world with their aid as by a car.

  • A bushman's bundle; a swag; -- so called because a blanket is sometimes used as the outside covering.

  • So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe.

  • A complex nitrogenous substance related to urea and uric acid, produced as a white powder; -- so called because it forms yellow salts, and because its solution forms a blue fluorescence like quinine.

  • So called because it is usually introduced by painters in pictures of the Annunciation.

  • A comet is so-called because it spreads light from itself as if it were hair (comas).

  • Sanguis in the Latin is so-called because it is suavis, whence men in whom sanguis is predominant are pleasant and bland.

  • Jus is so-called because it is just (justum).

  • There is the Jilokhana, or place where the royal processions used to start from; the Cheeni Bagh, so called because of the China vases that used to decorate it; and the Hazrat Bagh, guarded by green mermaids.

  • The [Greek: paredros daimôn] was so called because he sat beside the magician.

  • The [Greek: paredros theos] was so called because he sat with the great gods.

  • It is so called because instead of a shrine there is only a plot of ground containing a "rock-cave"[148] with a great wooden post at each of the four corners.

  • Kalpa of stability, so called because 1000 Buddhas appear in the course of it.

  • Jambudvipa is one of the four great continents of the universe, representing the inhabited world as fancied by the Buddhists, and so called because it resembles in shape the leaves of the jambu tree.

  • An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; Ð so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.

  • The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; Ð so called because it was covered with sand.

  • A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; - so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light.

  • CUBIC NITRE, nitrate of soda, so called because it crystallises in cubes.

  • It is so called because it is the repository of all sub-conscious states.

  • He is so called because he is so beloved that God has given him a glimpse of the future, so that he sees behind the gate of death.

  • The Mediterranean Sea is so called because situated in the middle of the land.

  • A preposition is so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased.

  • The diapason is one of certain stops in the organ, so called because it extends through all notes of the scale.

  • So called because one of its earliest and most important applications was to the measurement of the earth's surface.

  • Farther east, divided by a valley, was Railway Hill, so called because on its east came the railway line, on the other side of which was Pieters Hill.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "called because" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acquire knowledge; called after; called again; called back; called for; called forth; called from; called good; called her; called here; called him; called out; called religious; called their; called them; called upon; exhorted them; flying buttresses; had acquired; hushed voice; left undone; minutes south; real friend; royal charter; wild asses; would listen