Example Sentences

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Across America, too, parents were naming their children after characters in Scott’s oeuvre.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024

If we were naming that product today in the United States, we’d call it Drone Strike.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2016

“In 1959, they were naming the places where the ingredients came from,” said Jeremiah Tower, the chef at Chez Panisse in the early 1970s.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2016

“We told him that he was loved by many, many people and that thousands of people were naming him specifically in their prayers.”

From MSNBC • Mar. 28, 2016

In the summer of 2006, poll respondents filling out open-ended questionnaires were naming him as a presidential possibility, though Hillary Clinton was decidedly the number one pick.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama