Sentence examples for briefly known from inspiring English sources

Together with friends Stephen Duffy and Simon Colley, they form a band briefly known as RAF.

He dabbled in larceny and vandalism, he tells us, and became briefly known at Groton as a snitch.

At that time, in the early 1690's, New York was briefly known as Flour City because it had a legal monopoly on the processing of flour.

The ex-Smiths guitarist and songwriter Johnny Marr first met Bragg in the early 1980s, when the latter was becoming a byword for the politicised music briefly known as "agit-pop".

Since joining Fallon, he has campaigned for Barack Obama, tweeted tirelessly about liberal causes — he has more than two million followers — and was briefly known as the Paul Revere of Occupy Wall Street.

Over a drink he told me that he'd recently talked to people who'd been in with Patsy O'Hara, the young but ferociously determined Derry lad I'd briefly known after the fire.

An older crewman, who had once docked in Somalia briefly, knew little about pirates except that they usually let ships go.

Anyone who met him even briefly knew that he cherished the solitude he found on his land because it allowed him to work in the way he wanted.

My parents, in the mid-1990s, briefly knew more than I did about the Internet, I think (the bill from AOL must have required a credit card).

There is Anna Hardie (who also figures as Anna K, in echo of Kafka, and Anna Key, in echo of the Sex Pistols), a Scottish woman who briefly knew the youthful Miles when they were both teenage competition winners.

Renowned for his journalism, Mr. García Márquez dug up mundane details, like the background of the Dominican baseball player he briefly knew 50 years ago, the history of a coastal bordello where he lived, the name of a typesetter who worked at one of his first newspapers.