Sentence examples for applied the name from inspiring English sources

Some surviving writings, however, indicate that contemporary writers may have applied the name to the harp.

Restaurants, takeout stands and drive-ins probably applied the name "burger" to their shrimp patties in the 1950's in the wake of the expanding McDonald's hamburger empire.

Fortey, with more than 150 new trilobite names to his credit, applied the name monroeae (after Marilyn) to one with a singularly hourglass shape.

To this hypothetical substance Georg Ernst Stahl, at about the beginning of the 18th century, applied the name phlogiston (from Greek, meaning "burned").

In the mid-19th century the German paleontologist and showman Albert Koch applied the name Leviathan to an American mastodon [Mammut americanum] skeleton he had artificially enlarged by adding a few extra bones.

To this series they applied the name "Georgian" to suggest the opening of a new poetic age with the accession in 1910 of George V. Five volumes of Georgian Poetry, edited by Marsh, were published between 1912 and 1922.

In 1892, that company decided to apply the name to a new line of canned peaches.

Several authoritative sources, however, frequently apply the name to the terciopelo (B. asper) and the common lancehead (B. atrox) of South America.

The name, which is derived from Pelopos Nisos (Island of Pelops, a legendary hero), does not appear in Homer, who preferred to apply the name of Árgos, a Mycenaean city-state, to the whole peninsula.

Well, it would seem to be the property had by all and only the things to which we can properly apply the name 'George'.

The title of the piece comically applies the name of a garment for girls and women, a pinafore, to the fearsome symbol of a naval warship.