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Example sentences for "named"

Lexicographically close words:
namam; naman; namdo; name; nameable; nameless; namelie; namely; namentlich; names
  1. Meanwhile the party which had been left in charge of affairs at Sonoma chose one of their number, a man named Ide, as their leader.

  2. Vizcaino entered and named the Bay of San Pedro.

  3. Sailing on, he discovered a river which he named "Carmelo," in honor of the Carmelite friars who accompanied him.

  4. From here he was driven back by contrary winds, and toward nightfall of a stormy day found himself near the little island now named San Miguel.

  5. He had gone but a little way when he was overtaken by a captain of the navy named Gillespie, bringing him letters from the officers of the government at Washington.

  6. At one time the Californians declared that theirs was a free state, and a young man named Alvarado was made governor.

  7. It brought among its members a young man named Bidwell, afterward United States representative from California.

  8. The country Drake named New Albion, partly from its white cliffs, which resembled those of his native land, and partly in belief that it would be easier to lay claim to the country if it bore one of the names applied to England.

  9. The next day they discovered and named some mountains which they called Sierra Nevada, and, sailing on, went as far north as about 40¼.

  10. After leaving San Diego, the next anchoring place was the island named by Vizcaino for Santa Catalina, on whose feast day his ships entered the pretty little harbor of Avalon.

  11. Johnson, "if the earthly Paradise were to be named over again, the name of Clawbonny would suit it to a miracle!

  12. The requisite sum shall be deposited with the above-named Messrs.

  13. None at all," answered Altamont, "provided that the cape jutting into the sea over there is named Cape Washington.

  14. Cape Bellot was so named in presence of that young French officer to whom the English expedition gave three cheers.

  15. Marjorie named in turn those of her schoolmates who stood nearest to herself and Veronica.

  16. I didn't deserve the honor of having the scholarship named for me.

  17. All these types appear in other places and in other vocations, but they are certain to be present in large numbers any day in any of the above-named places.

  18. So Neil was seldom named unless a letter came from him, which was not a frequent occurrence.

  19. I have never named New Orleans to anyone.

  20. She's as uncertain as the wind, but the lad is named James after his grandfeyther, and he'll ask for him, on that plea.

  21. If they werna named in the will, and there is any question of my right in the matter, say, I hae given it to you.

  22. Sitting at tea with the captain's widow, he named this fact.

  23. Two winters ago I met in Nice a wealthy young Englishman named Holroyde.

  24. There was on the shores of the Bosphorus an old Greek city named Byzantion.

  25. Belonging to the Sam Yups was a Chinaman named Little Pete, and it is indirectly through him that trouble has fallen upon the heads of the ten Chinese merchants.

  26. They have many a valiant hero Remembered through the years, But never one whose name so oft Is named with loving tears.

  27. I must tell you that he was a villain named Hunt, who at one time was the intimate consort of the pirate Keitt.

  28. Suffer it by your clemency to be still named among the living cities.

  29. Congal, and founded the monastery (now a town) named Balla, in Connaught.

  30. They contain a refutation of the blasphemous homilies of that heresiarch, who yet is never {281} named in them; by which circumstance they seem to have been written before his condemnation.

  31. At eleven years of age she desired to enter a monastery, but, in obedience to her parents, was married to a rich young Roman nobleman, named Laurence Ponzani, in 1396.

  32. One of these, named Faustus, had erected a monastery in Byzacena.

  33. Jerusalem at the suggestion of a devout lady named Icelia, about the middle of the fifth century, about sixty years after the death of St. Cyril.

  34. On his being named to the presidency of the English college at St. Omer's, doubts were suggested to him on the justice or propriety of his accepting the presidency of a college which, in fact, belonged to others.

  35. But God discovered his innocency; for the woman falling in labor, lay in extreme anguish, and could not be delivered till she had named the true father of her child.

  36. His tomb is shown in the churchyard of another church, in the same island, named Teglach-Enda.

  37. SHE suffered about the year 304, and is named in the Martyrologies under the name of St. Jerom, Bede, and others.

  38. For the winter he did not return to Thorfin as asked, but accepted the invitation of another bonder, named Thorgils.

  39. Here he had a friend named Biorn living at Holm.

  40. So it was settled that a farmer named Helgi should take Grettir and keep him in ward till Vermund came home.

  41. Grettir named himself, and said he had come over about that matter of the wrestle on the ice.

  42. One of these valleys is called Waterdale, and at the time of our story there lived there a man named Vermund the Slim, and his wife's name was Thorbiorg; she was a big, fine woman.

  43. A man named Hafr recited the terms of the oath, and the rest agreed to it.

  44. This Thorbiorn had got a serving-man named Ali, a somewhat lazy man, strong, but unruly.

  45. Now, Thorir of Garth heard of an outlaw named Thorir Redbeard, a very big man, who for murder had been outlawed, and was therefore in hiding somewhere.

  46. DANTE’S EARLY DAYS In the month when Charles of Anjou sailed up the Tiber to Rome, a child was born at Florence to a citizen named Alighiero, son of Bellincione.

  47. This book should most emphatically be added to those named in the appendix as essential to the study of our author.

  48. The only genuine Guelf who is named in this division is Tesauro de’ Beccheria, the Abbot of Vallombrosa.

  49. They had only one good king, named Jehu, and he was none too good.

  50. The service can be made to come within an hour, by shortening some of the items named above.

  51. No one should be set over any class as teacher whose appointment is not satisfactory to the three persons named above.

  52. All of the officers named above, and the Chairmen of all the committees named above, constitute the Superintendent's Cabinet.

  53. Give the first two leaders named as deliverers.

  54. All of the provisions of the above-named acts which it is proposed in this bill to repeal or modify relate to the Congressional elections.

  55. The bill, as it was sent to the Senate from the House of Representatives, was confined in its provisions to the object named in its title, which is that of "An act to restrict the immigration of Chinese to the United States.

  56. There is a man named Barto Rizzo, who thinks me a guilty traitress, and she is making use of this man.

  57. We skirt along the blue bay, dotted with white sails, for there is a regatta in progress, until we reach the well-named Point Pleasant.

  58. The boiling water of many streams swells the vapour that rises from this fitly-named Ojigoku, or Big Hell.

  59. She named an hour when she would be at home: an address in the Avenue des Champs Elysées, which I noted on my tablets.

  60. The prisoner was ably defended by a Dutch lawyer named De Koch, and, owing to his having done good service during the siege, was strongly recommended to mercy, although sentenced to be shot.

  61. An old cannon had been discovered, half buried in the native stadt, which was polished up and named "The Lord Nelson," from the fact of its antiquity.

  62. In the distance we could see the glimmering blue waters of a huge dam, beyond which was the farm and homestead of a loyal colonial farmer named Keeley, whose hospitality I had been told to seek.

  63. A young man, named Hazelrigg, of an old Leicestershire family, was badly shot in the region of the heart when taking a message to the B.

  64. The only people at Johannesburg who had derived any advantage from the confusion were several hitherto unknown military commanders, who had proudly acquired the title of Colonel, and had promptly named a body of horse after themselves.

  65. As a first step I lent Dop to a young Dutchman named Brevel, who was anxious to go to that township to sell some fat cattle.

  66. In Mr. Wiel's service was a waiter named Mitchell, a Cockney to the backbone, and a great character in his way.

  67. On another occasion an English farmer named Leipner looked in, and gave us some information about Vryburg.

  68. This slightly intoxicated gentleman inquired of Mr. Fraser where they could find a man named Mr. P.

  69. A correspondent remembered to have seen when a boy the Shakespear Inn, Lower Northgate Street, Gloucester, kept by an old gentleman named Smith.

  70. Shakespeare named tried to avoid payment on some grounds.

  71. I shall be named an officer on the field of battle.

  72. Here in my heart I feel that I shall either be killed or named sub-lieutenant on the field of battle.

  73. We have named Citizen Santerre commander of the armed force of Paris.

  74. The Convention named a committee of defense and called to its assistance the patriots of the suburbs.

  75. The committee-men named to represent at the Commune the Section of the Blind Asylum are Huguenin, Rossignol, and Balin.

  76. Barras, commander-in-chief of the forces at the disposal of the Assembly, called to his staff a young artillery officer named Bonaparte, whose military renown dated from the siege of Toulon.

  77. On inquiry he learned that the next day a Jew named Samuel was to be burnt in the cause of religion.

  78. The company was in command of a captain named Martin, a pupil of the painter David, the Convention member.

  79. The majority applauded, and named a committee to go to the Chamber of Peers, also in session, and inform them of the decision of the deputies.

  80. I now conceived a violent affection for a young sergeant in the French Guards named Maurice, the son of one of our neighbors.

  81. The great army of rural teachers, the Farmers' Union, and other farmers' organisations I have already named would gladly coöperate with schemes making for rural progress.

  82. Owing to the new agricultural opinion which had been developed indirectly by organising the farmer, we were able to win from Parliament the department I have named above.

  83. Over against the Mount fronteth a towne of petty fortune, pertinently named Marcaiew, or Marhas diow, in English “the Thursdaies market.

  84. I have in the last few months discovered that the three Noachic families were originally named according to the three colors.

  85. All Indian literature, except the Vedas, is in the New South Bactrian, already become a learned language, which has been named the perfect or Sanskrit language.

  86. He is named as one of the many who helped to deliver mankind from the thralldom of scholasticism.

  87. Our host named the sum without hesitation, adding that he would be glad to show us over it; and Boone's face grew somber as he said: "It is more than twice what it was sold for when it was stolen from me.

  88. Then one of the strangers named a ridiculously small sum, which Steel, amid a burst of laughter from all those who knew the state of his finances, immediately doubled, whereupon the bidder advanced his offer by a hundred dollars.

  89. Besides the above-named Gypsy clans, there are other smaller ones, some of which do not comprise more than a dozen individuals, children included.

  90. This child was born in wedlock--he is to be named Japhet.


  91. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "named" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accepted; adopted; approved; chosen; elect; elected; foregoing; former; named; nominated; passed; picked; ratified; said; same; select; styled; titled


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    named after; named because; named from; named varieties