Example Sentences

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If Bill keeps this up very long they will nickname him Barnum.

From Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie by Stone, Barney

But it teaches one to see at least that if nobody else will nickname one’s children, the parents will e’en do it themselves.”

From Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson by Morley, Henry