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Example sentences for "namesakes"

Lexicographically close words:
namelie; namely; namentlich; names; namesake; nameth; namin; naming; namly; namque
  1. One particular afternoon found the namesakes strolling arm in arm along the narrow sandy lane which led inland from the beach towards the woods and the hills behind.

  2. His family was supposed to stem from Limerick, from {97} namesakes who spelled their name differently as Bourke.

  3. It would, perhaps, have been unreasonable on the part of any dispassionate observer of public affairs to anticipate that a third George would make a worse monarch than his namesakes and immediate predecessors.

  4. Gunnar thanked Njal for his aid, and Njal rode away under the Threecorner, and told those namesakes that Gunnar would not break up his band of men before he had fought it out with them.

  5. A little after, those namesakes and Mord met, and they were not at all of one mind.

  6. A little while after those namesakes met Mord Valgard's son, and Mord blamed them much for having laid the matter in Njal's hands, when he was Gunnar's great friend.

  7. Njal begged for a hearing, and asked all the best men who were come thither, what right at law they thought Gunnar had against those namesakes for their treason.

  8. Then those namesakes thought they had been beguiled by Mord, and scolded him much, and said that this fine was all his doing.

  9. Those namesakes [the two Kolskeggs] fought together, and it was a near thing which would get the better of it.

  10. And now Gunnar is at home in his house, and those namesakes ride into a wood hard by.

  11. Njal named twelve men as judges in the suit, and then every man paid a hundred in silver who had gone out, but each of those namesakes two hundred.

  12. Those namesakes were always meeting, and there was the greatest friendship between them.

  13. There was a kinsman of his hight Thorbiorn, and bynamed Tardy; he was a sailor, and the namesakes were partners.

  14. Namesakes appeared on the way, of all sizes.

  15. Tell him I have numbers of his namesakes since I left Virginia, of whom I was not aware.

  16. Then her namesakes the Perchten grew wild and furious too; they scattered and fled for their lives to the nearest house, for as soon as they got under the gutter of a roof they were safe.

  17. The namesakes drop a small portion of the meat on the floor.

  18. At the same time the namesakes of the dead are richly clothed from head to foot and showered with presents.

  19. This is symbolical of clothing the dead, who ascend into the bodies of their namesakes during the ceremony and take on the spiritual counterpart of the clothing.

  20. Then the namesakes of the dead troop into the kásgi, and take their places in the center of the room between the two lines.

  21. But not one of all those passers-by knew that she was a "Daisy," or that those were her namesakes which she held so lovingly in her little hands.

  22. Is it your wish, Sir Wycherly, that your kinsmen and namesakes remain in the room, or shall they retire until the will is executed?

  23. Of my namesakes I have little to say, for they resembled most of the nuns; being so much cut off from intercourse with me and the other sisters, that I never saw anything in them, nor learnt any thing about them, worth mentioning.

  24. I found that I had several namesakes among the nuns, for there were two others who already bore my new name, Saint Eustace.

  25. Adelaide tribe of South Australia, namesakes of the dead change their names in the, iii.

  26. Namesakes of the dead change their names to avoid attracting the attention of the ghost, iii.

  27. The Tiger himself was a well-disposed animal; somewhat given to solitary prowling, like his namesakes in a state of nature, but of most untigerlike and facetious humour.

  28. With a Bunch of Namesakes Robert Cameron Rogers 306 Her Bonnet Mary E.

  29. Those namesakes the two Kolskeggs fought together, and it was a near thing which would get the better of it.

  30. M220 Mode of reviving the dead in the persons of their namesakes among the North American Indians.

  31. Namesakes of the dead change their names to avoid attracting the attention of the ghost, 355 sqq.

  32. M223 Namesakes of the dead treated as the dead in person among the Esquimaux of Bering Strait.

  33. M221 The dead revived in their namesakes among the Lapps, Khonds, Yorubas, Baganda, and Makalaka.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "namesakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.