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"Namesake" in a Sentence (16 examples)
He is my namesake, but no relation.
The English town of York is the namesake of the largest city in the United States.
Wonder why he was struck off the rolls. Had his office in Hume street. Same house as Molly’s namesake, Tweedy, crown solicitor for Waterford.
I casually learned that my namesake was born on the nineteenth of January, 1813.
Israel's namesake was born Jacob.
My namesake was the wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
The Levites' namesake was one of the sons of Jacob and Leah.
My older brother's namesake was our grandfather, who died before he was born.
Your namesake has just scored another goal.
Mt. Thielsen, namesake for the surrounding Wilderness Area, is called “The Lightning Rod of the Cascades.” A dormant volcano, its peak is struck by lightning so often that some rocks at the summit have melted into an unusual mineral called fulgurite. This mineral is made of natural hollow glass tubes formed when silica is subjected to high temperatures, such as lightning strikes.
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The statesman Winston Churchill has a namesake, the American novelist Winston Churchill.
Chris Evans, British DJ and media manipulator extraordinaire, is not to be confused with Chris Evans, Australia's shadow minister for family services, nor with Chris Evans, the late train robber of the wilds of west California, or indeed potentially hundreds of other namesakes. One unquestionable aspect of this Chris Evans is that he is unique.
Look at our namesakes too. There's Tom, of course - a bit creepy now but he definitely had his moments. There's Davy Jones out of the Monkees. Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones preferred Jones to his birth name Baldwin. And he's quite cool. There's an American brokerage firm called Edward Jones which perhaps isn't so cool.
Bill Sr's namesake, Bill Jr, is 30 years younger.
Bill Jr's namesake, Bill Sr, is 30 years older.
It is the only citation from 1902, and was clearly added to the manuscript at a late stage, being only one of two examples of the dictionary’s namesake actually discovered by Crooke.
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