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Example sentences for "false name"

  • The name appended to his letter was a false name; the address from which he pretended to write was a falsehood.

  • At the same time he determined that before many weeks had passed he would go to York under a false name, and breaking his promise do secretly what he dared not do openly.

  • Shelley was not a child when he thus put wares under a false name on a London tradesman.

  • I have enlisted under a false name, and will never go home any more.

  • This proved nothing, for Charles might have enlisted under a false name, and yet might have been known by his real name to an intimate comrade.

  • He gave me a false name, it seems, from the very beginning.

  • Though I have the misfortune to be the brother of the man who gave you a false name in order to deceive you, I trust you will still allow me to help you as far as I am able, and to take you to my German friends of whom I spoke to you.

  • Then he gave me a false name,' she said, slowly, fronting him like a tigress.

  • But did I understand you to say just now, that it was of no consequence if a man married in a false name?

  • I married this young woman in a false name; I robbed her of her money, and I deserve the hulks, if anybody ever did.

  • Ogareff had therefore no doubt that the pretended Nicholas Korpanoff was Michael Strogoff, courier of the Czar, seeking concealment under a false name, and charged with some mission which it would have been important for him to know.

  • And if according to his intention, Ivan Ogareff should present himself to your Highness under a false name?

  • The plan of the traitor was to reach the Grand Duke under a false name, to gain his confidence, and to deliver into Tartar hands the town and the Grand Duke himself.

  • I always fancied, after what happened at The Bunhouse, that that dreadful Mr. Cranley sent her to me under a false name.

  • I had often intended to tell her; but I have become so frightened lately, and it seemed so mean to be living with her under a false name.

  • If Mr. Noel Vanstone ever discovers that you have knowingly married him under a false name, he can apply to the Ecclesiastical Court to have his marriage declared null and void.

  • Miss Bygrave has married you under a false character and a false name.

  • Under a false name he enlisted in its ranks, and raised himself to the position of officer.

  • As the Baron von Schranden never was an officer, there is no reason why you should concern yourself about him; and as Lieutenant Baumgart has proved a swindler, and assumed a false name, he is equally beneath your notice.

  • It would need only a little malice prepense to make him out a deserter from the flag, and the fact of his having borne a false name would go far to establish his guilt.

  • In such circumstances a false name----That is what cannot be said.

  • But," he cried, with a guilty flush of colour, "it is not a false name.

  • There's no social crime like going under a false name.

  • I would endeavour to keep my disgrace from your knowledge; so I gave a false name, the first that occurred to me, Antony Cowlrick, and gave it in such a way that the police knew it to be false.

  • When we were alone, I said, "Sydney, what impelled you to introduce a lady into this assembly under a false name?

  • They were cousins of some unknown Brian Luttrell, brought up under a false name in a small Italian village.

  • He could not bear to use a false name when he wrote to her; and he was sure that she would know from whom the letter came.

  • I thought perhaps you were an agent of the claimant; but I didn't know you were passing under a false name, that you were aware in whose house you were staying.

  • Yet you still accepted what I had to offer, under a false name, under false pretenses.

  • You gave me a false name to spy out the land.

  • Let us finish at once with this man: two days after the events we have just recorded he started for America, under a false name, with his daughter Azelma, and provided with an order on a New York banker for twenty thousand francs.

  • A false name is a security, and he had thrown away that false name.

  • This man has crept into your confidence, and almost into your family, under a false name.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "false name" 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:
    been decreed; born from; crying out; distant country; false alarm; false analogy; false brethren; false claim; false faith; false impression; false name; false oath; false opinion; false pretences; false prophet; false prophets; false sense; false teeth; false witness; majority vote; mortal eyes; ninety degrees; probably true; shall take the liberty; tell you; then gave