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Example sentences for "styled"

Lexicographically close words:
stutters; stye; styes; styl; style; styles; stylet; stylets; styling; stylish
  1. Those students who received the whole of their instruction at home, and got ordained without going abroad, were styled heather priests.

  2. Tennyson and Palgrave were visitors at Ardtornish, as Mr. Lang tells us, but made no special impression on the natives, who styled them respectively Tinman and Pancake.

  3. My own view was that if Mrs. Mimms wanted to be styled "the Honourable" it would be discourteous to deny her the title.

  4. Hankly, who has seen a great deal of the world, told us that American ambassadors are styled the Right Honourable, and that Mrs. Mimms's husband might have been an ambassador.

  5. I wish we had brought your carriage, Fritz," said Eric, alluding to the wheelbarrow, which had been so styled by the sailor lad after he had utilised it as an ambulance waggon.

  6. A most sumptuous Gothic apartment was that styled the "Salle Echevinale," restored with great skill in recent years by a concurrence of Flemish artists, members of the Academy.

  7. Without going into any details its attraction was in what might be called its venerable coquettishness,--bizarre, one might have styled it, but that the word conveys some hint of lack of dignity.

  8. But the "mechanism," as he styled it, failed to work.

  9. So it was with the bitterest resentment that, on the morning following her arrival in Montaignac, she recounted what she styled her "humiliations" to her father, i.

  10. But "the good cause," as he styled it, having triumphed anew, he hastened to France.

  11. The men attached to each were styled its 'gang,' a word which conveys no discredit in nautical language.

  12. Mladen was overthrown by Stephen Kostromanic, and when he fled to Hungary, Charles Robert cast him in prison, leaving undisturbed possession to Stephen, who styled himself Ban by the grace of God.

  13. Perhaps they might have flourished undisturbed had not fanaticism, or possibly retaliation for aggression, led them to make a foray on the mainland and slay some two hundred peasants, whom they styled children of the devil.

  14. To the east was Stephen Dusan the Great, who styled himself Emperor of Servia, Greece, and Bulgaria, and who had shown himself unfriendly since the union of Herzegovina with Bosnia.

  15. Giles Cantor, who founded in Brussels the sect which styled itself Men of Intelligence, was probably a disciple of Mary of Valenciennes, and the name was adopted merely to cover its affiliation with the proscribed Brethren of the Free Spirit.

  16. A refusal made by powerful individuals was not less effective because they were not styled a representative committee.

  17. An observer at the present day is struck by the fluency of Englishmen upon their feet, and by the free use of humour as a means of emphasis, instead of the sonorous phrases formerly styled oratory.

  18. In the case of the Board of Works he is styled First Commissioner.

  19. I have thought it great weakness to need the voucher of a miracle, or of any of those direct interpositions of a divine power, which, in common parlance, are alone styled revelation.

  20. But from this book, it would seem to approach the faith of some of my friends here, which has been styled Psychotheism.

  21. But this exhibition which was styled 'Twenty minutes in Hell,' was poor and faint beside the neighbouring exhibition of the real Hell, in which Europe had been tortured for fifteen centuries.

  22. The church property was in ecclesiastical documents styled the fisc.

  23. A compilation was made of the canons of this and the preceding ones, which was styled the “African Council.

  24. One of the interesting points called up by old-timers in that stage of Dayton's history is the development of what is now known as "Brooklyn" or first styled "Across the Patit.

  25. The varied activities and enterprises of these builders of the foundations during the decades of the '60s and '70s, which may be styled the first division of the era of modern times will compose Part Two of this volume.

  26. The man who might be styled the founder of the Town of Asotin was Theodore M.

  27. And the matter was settled as he decided, it being agreed that Violante should be still styled the daughter of Dr.

  28. Schlegel has written an admirable book not improperly styled "the Philosophy of History;" but it avowedly is not a history, but a review of the general conclusions which seemed deducible from it.

  29. These men who are styled the Hong merchants, in distinction to a common merchant whom they call mai-mai-gin, a buying and selling man, might not unjustly be compared with the most eminent of the mercantile class in England.

  30. For God might justly be styled a deceiver if he had given us a reason so perverted as to hold the false for the true.

  31. Thus some antiquaries, many years since, formed a club styled 'Noviomagians.

  32. In the grant Wolsey is styled counsellor and almoner to the King.

  33. The predominance of bivalve mollusca of this peculiar class has caused the Silurian period to be sometimes styled "the age of brachiopods.

  34. Another curious phenomenon bearing on this subject was styled by the late Hugh Miller the "striated pavements" of the boulder clay.

  35. There it has been poetically styled the "Garlands of Death," as significant of the fevers that prevail wherever it is abundant.

  36. Kings of Arms were frequently styled heralds in old records, it is more than probable both offices were in existence at the same time.

  37. Rouge-Croix, the first in point of antiquity of creation, is so styled from the red cross of St. George, the Patron Saint of England.

  38. They were styled the Corporation of Kings, Heralds, and Pursuivants of Arms.

  39. Rouge-Dragon, so styled from the red dragon, one of the supporters of the Royal arms of King Henry VII.

  40. A gold background with black ermine spots is styled erminois, and pean is a black ground with gold ermine spots.

  41. Smith's labours laid the foundation of stratigraphical geology in England and he was styled even in his lifetime the "Father of English geology.

  42. They have been styled the alphabet of palaeontological inquiry.

  43. Washburn, of Illinois, who had been in the previous Congress the oldest member in continuous service, and hence was styled "Father of the House.

  44. That the Roman pontiff alone is justly styled universal.

  45. In verse 8, this same law is styled "the royal law;" that is, the kingly law.


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