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Example sentences for "dubbed"

Lexicographically close words:
duality; duan; duarum; duas; dub; dubbin; dubbing; dubble; dubersome; dubia
  1. When he preached sanctification he was dubbed a “Papist.

  2. Still I have not without forethought dubbed this man a Cinque Cento Brutus.

  3. Knights of Arms are those who in the opening of a battle, or upon a foughten field, are dubbed knights.

  4. In that thou wilt do what is thy duty, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "for to engage in battles of this sort it is not requisite to be a dubbed knight.

  5. The only two teachers who did not indulge him were Pievakin and the teacher of mathematics, a cheerful hunchback with a pale distended face lit by a pair of comical blue eyes, whom the boys had dubbed "truncated cone.

  6. Parmet had been dubbed Bismarck, because he bore considerable resemblance to Gambetta.

  7. The party of the Princes had been dubbed by the name of the New Fronde.

  8. The boys all openly adored him, and even though they had dubbed him Hercules Hugh, would have formed a door mat of their bodies had he hinted a desire for it.

  9. It was one of the most brilliant episodes of the war; and that night, the supplies having come up, the relief party were hoarse with cheering the men whom they dubbed British heroes, and all was festivity and joy.

  10. Upon English ears the rhymed couplets of Racine sound strangely; and how many besides Mr. Bailey have dubbed his alexandrines 'monotonous'!

  11. Footnote 144: Marshal Luxembourg was dubbed the Tapissier de Notre Dame (the upholsterer of Notre Dame), from the number of captured flags he sent to the cathedral.

  12. The Earl of Suffolk dubbed him a knight and surrendered to him.

  13. The French, who were with her, they dubbed pimps and infidels, to shame them for being in the company of a bad woman and a witch.

  14. The trilobites, as he so well dubbed them, ah in control again.

  15. Fathers have often dubbed their sons, but better still, a young noble will seek the honor from his suzerain.

  16. Yes, in twenty years my son will be dubbed a knight!

  17. On the other hand, there are many seigneurs who, although rich and dubbed as knights, nevertheless give the lie to their honors by their effeminacy and luxury.

  18. Young nobles like to visit Rome and be dubbed by the Pope.

  19. If he could have followed daydreaming, he would have been dubbed knight by the king himself after mighty deeds on the field of battle, while still covered with blood and grime; but such fair fortune comes only in the romances.

  20. Before leaving the scene of our meeting, the lake was dubbed Picnic Lake.

  21. Dubbed ITS, short for the Incompatible Time Sharing system, the operating system incorporated the hacking ethic into its very design.

  22. Dubbed the Woodrow Wilson/FDR Reform Democratic Club, Lippman and her club began showing up at planning and city-council meetings, demanding a greater say.

  23. He was heartily welcomed back to Sydney, and dubbed by journalists the "Prince of Explorers.

  24. From Mannheim, in Germany, in the year 1750, came a certain Baron Steigel, whose parents had dubbed him William Henry.

  25. So important was the craft considered in these early times that manufacturers received great attention from the government, were dubbed "Gentlemen," and were looked upon with awe by the common people.

  26. The new style was sometimes dubbed the "rat-tail spoon," in derisive comment upon its long and slender handle.

  27. Their software product was dubbed dGraph, a marketing abbreviated term for data-Graphics.

  28. The 7:30 flight was dubbed the Federal Express by the stewardesses because it was primarily congressmen, diplo- mats and other Washington denizens who took this flight.

  29. Then they hastened to the little wooden shack, which they dubbed the Grub House, as it was here that the camp cooking was to be done.

  30. She had learned from the girls of her own set in school that when a newcomer took particular care to advise them how rich she was, her mates usually dubbed her a snob.

  31. This red life-line was then thrown to the sinker--as the girls dubbed Edith, who was playing the part of the person drowning.

  32. They had seized a piece of cannon at Jallais, which they christened the Missionnaire; and a second, at some other place, which was dubbed Marie-Jeanne.

  33. But I have hardly as yet described Vatout; Madame Valmore took him off well when she dubbed him a "butterfly in top-boots.

  34. To be dubbed white is, in the army, like being dubbed knight at King Arthur's Court or canonized saint in the Church.

  35. He was dubbed "Caesar" because of his fondness for the character of that warrior, and because he was always holding him up as a pattern of some virtues to his pupils.

  36. On the one hand, FACTS are being established which the science of yesterday dubbed swindles.

  37. But the results are often dubbed either sub--or super-conscious.

  38. I have never sold him because he was rather an odd creature and so cantankerous that we dubbed him the Three Bars mascot.

  39. Yet, though dubbed a "dig" by his fellow-collegians, the men liked him.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dubbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    named; styled; titled