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Example sentences for "man named"

  • And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.

  • Arkansas, by a man named Walker; and Robert Carothers, in an affray in St. Francis co.

  • Ranaway from the subscriber, a man named Aaron, yellow complexion, blue eyes, &c.

  • This Isaac Wright, was shipped by a man named Lewis, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and sold as a slave in New Orleans.

  • In 1811, I was returning from mill, in Shenandoah county, when I heard the cry of murder, in the field of a man named Painter.

  • From the station I am going straight to the house on Z Street--let me see, the cipher says the number is 101--and ask for a man named Gonzales.

  • The bookkeeper who had charge of the accounts in her department, a man named Douglas, is missing.

  • When evening came, a man named Joseph of Arimathaea went to see Pilate.

  • You know we have a man named Barabbas in jail--he's the fellow that started a rebellion a little while ago.

  • A man named Simon, whom Jesus once cured of the dreaded leprosy, had a house in Bethany where Jesus was welcome.

  • The chief second was a man named Jihei, who had always been used to treat Katayama with great respect.

  • He was sold for $25 to a man named Hardy, who worked him for a year and then sold him for $40 to another man named Pace.

  • Extraordinary attention was attracted by the burning in St. Louis in 1835 of a man named McIntosh, who had killed an officer who was trying to arrest him.

  • They entered the home of a man named Godfrey, and having murdered him and his wife and children, they took all the arms he had, set fire to the house, and proceeded towards Jonesboro.

  • On the afternoon of the 28th the agent dined not far from the fort at the home of the sutler, a man named Rogers, and after dinner he walked with Lieutenant Smith to the crest of a neighboring hill.

  • Have you heard any talk about a man named Schmitz?

  • Do you remember when I went to the mines I met a man named Burthen?

  • Later came the exciting rumors that John Durkee, Charles Rand and a crew of ten men had captured the sloop carrying these arms on the bay; had arrested Reuben Maloney, John Phillips and a man named McNab.

  • The cause of this awful outbreak of human passion was the murder of a four-year-old child, daughter of a man named Vance.

  • A few hours after, it was ascertained that a man named Miller, and his wife, did live at the number the prisoner gave in his speech, but the information came to Bardwell too late to do the prisoner any good.

  • There was a man named Thorwald; he was Oswif's son, and dwelt out on Middlefells strand, under the Fell.

  • Then Gunnhillda said, "I see plainly that he means to claim his heritage, but there is a man named Soti, who has laid his hands on it".

  • There was a man named Swan, who dwelt in Bearfirth, which lies north from Steingrimsfirth.

  • There was a man named Atli, son of Arnvid, Earl of East Gothland.

  • The next morning my master received a visit from a man named Huckstep, who had undertaken the management of his plantation as an overseer.

  • Both Luke Stevens and the rancher Andrews had hinted to Duane to kill a man named Brown.

  • The killing of a man named Sellers, and the combination of circumstances that had made the tragedy a memorable regret, had marked, if not a change, at least a cessation in Duane's activities.

  • When a mere girl she married a man named Rougon, who died soon afterwards, leaving her with a son named Pierre, from whom descended the legitimate branch of the family.

  • Notwithstanding her relations with Hourdequin, she had other lovers, and the old shepherd Soulas, from motives of revenge, informed Hourdequin of her intimacy with one of them, a man named Tron.

  • Scarcely a year had elapsed before the widow took as her lover a man named Macquart, who lived in a hovel adjoining her own property, and two children were born.

  • From her father she inherited a small farm, and at the age of eighteen married one of her own labourers, a man named Rougon, who died fifteen months afterwards, leaving her with one son, named Pierre.

  • A man named Farrell, partner in the firm of Delverton Brothers of Austin Friars, was found dead in his office.

  • She came there with a man named Renaud, who has a big shop in Regent Street, and had spent money on her, I imagine.

  • It was then let to a man named Greaves, about whom nothing was known.

  • I had come to Fairtown ten days ago on the lookout for a man named Beverley.

  • There was a man named Thorir, who lived at Garth, in Maindale, he was the son of Skeggi, the son of Botulf.

  • That summer a ship came out to Hunawater, wherein was a man named Thorgaut.

  • There dwelt a man called Helgi, who was the biggest of bonders thereabout: from there had Grettir a good horse, which the bonder owned, and thence he went to Giorvidale, where farmed a man named Thorkel.

  • At Tongue there lived a man named Thorarin, son of Thorir Sæling (the Voluptuous).

  • There was also in the journey with Unn a man named Hord, and he too was also a man of high birth and of great worth.

  • Egil said, "There is here a man named Olaf, who is Hoskuld's son, and he is now one of the most renowned of men.

  • There was a man named Gudmund, who was the son of Solmund, and lived at Asbjornness north in Willowdale.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "man named" 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:
    either good; man must; man shall; many ages; many believed; many centuries; many colours; many evils; many farmers; many friends; many generations; many libraries; many lives; many members; many particulars; many parts; many races; many readers; many ships; many souls; many subjects; many tribes; many votes; many witnesses; many works; myself and