A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
My neighbor was named to the steering committee.
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Used in the Middle of Sentence
This café likes to Frenchify the names of its dishes to make them sound better than they actually are — they call their fish and chips "poisson-frites".
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn / It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore
Isolates with indistinguishable profiles were attributed with a pulsotype named by a capital letter (A to H).
Used in the Beginning of Sentence
Names of this sort, theophorous or basilophorous, were regularly given to foreigners residing in Egypt from the New Kingdom onwards, if not earlier; even Joseph was no exception.
Used in the Ending of Sentence
A person is born into their skin group and thus, in addition to a personal name, shares with other relatives who are similarly classified, a skin name.
How much do you want to bet he pitches a tent when he finds out she knows his name?
Soapberries are rich enough in saponin to be used as soap substitute, hence their name.
Meaning of name for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "name" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.