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Example sentences for "naming"

Lexicographically close words:
names; namesake; namesakes; nameth; namin; namly; namque; namyd; namys; nancour
  1. Five years later he returned to Virginia and explored the coast to the north, making a map of the region, and naming it New England.

  2. There is good reason for naming the loveliest of climbing roses, “Baltimore Belles.

  3. And over that also went many pretty plays, as taking the pieces off, and naming them, and doing them on again, and the like.

  4. He even had a purpose in naming his first-born.

  5. When it came to naming the child, he was called "Dodd.

  6. Smiling into late sky, Paul envisaged the wizened red midget riding the white monsters that Sears had tamed and insisted on naming olifants-with-an-f.

  7. Abro Samiraa, Abro Kamisiaa, Abro Brodaa--" Pakriaa was naming the heads of the five northern villages.

  8. He has great fame throughout Tibet and all Tartary, his partisans claiming for him spiritual power at least equal to that of the Dalai Lama, and never naming him without deep reverence.

  9. There will be little difficulty in naming this largest, most plump and reddish of all the sparrows, whose fox-colored feathers, rather than any malicious cunning of its disposition, are responsible for the name it bears.

  10. Why it should ever have been called a thrush blackbird is one of those inscrutable mysteries peculiar to the naming of birds which are so frequently called precisely what they are not.

  11. I answered "Yes"--naming one especially, a very beautiful and accomplished girl who was quite the most popular debutante of the London season.

  12. He closed by naming his candidate somewhat like this: "I now have the pleasure and honor of proposing as the candidate of this convention that eminent statesman, James S.

  13. Not that I think, like them, that it is Elizabethan dislike to naming a successor, nor to keep him on his good behaviour; she is far above that, but it is plain how it will he.

  14. Mr. Buck celebrated the Pelegging, or dividing of Virginia, into legislative districts by naming his third child Peleg.

  15. It is an interesting study to trace the underlying reason for naming children many of the curious names which were given to the offspring of the first colonists.

  16. On the second occasion we had Freake and Dashwood,' naming two well-known English antiquarians.

  17. Harrisse, Henry, observations on the naming of America, 244.

  18. This truth was recognized by the framers of our federal and many state constitutions, in naming first among the purposes of government the establishment of justice.

  19. In the same century, upon the accession of William and Mary, a Bill of Rights was framed and enacted into law by King and Parliament, naming liberties and rights of the subject which ought not to be abridged.

  20. So in the numbers below one hundred, in English, eleven and twelve are out of harmony with the rest of the -teens, while the naming of all the numbers between ten and twenty is not analogous to the naming of the numbers above twenty.

  21. Her naming of the old servant familiarly melted him.

  22. A sigh like the roll of a great wave breaking against a wall of rock came from her for the possibly lost chance of naming him to his face Matey,--oh, and seeing his look as she said it!

  23. But it was not the class, it was against her lord as representative of the class, that she was now the rebel, neither naming him nor imaging him.

  24. In other words, men generalized and named their principal ways of acting before generalizing and naming the phenomena of nature.

  25. This second voyage was marked by the naming of his discoveries, and it is recorded that the new found lands were by him called New France.

  26. As many infants die, it is the custom to wait eight or ten days after birth before naming a child, when a similar sacrifice is made, and a leaf prepared in like manner is passed down the arms of the infant by the blian.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "naming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    appellation; appointment; assignment; baptism; calling; characterization; christening; connotative; definition; demonstrative; denomination; denotative; designation; diagnostic; differentiation; disclosure; evidential; expression; expressive; figurative; fingering; hint; identification; ideographic; idiosyncratic; indicating; indicative; individual; manifestation; meaning; meaningful; mention; metaphorical; naming; nomination; ordination; peculiar; posting; proposal; reference; representative; selection; semantic; show; showing; signalizing; significant; signification; specification; suggestion; suggestive; symbolic; symbolical; symptomatic; typical