Sentence examples for called because of the from inspiring English sources

Baying — so called because of the dogs' howling at the bear — is protected by a loophole in South Carolina law.

Fire and sewer officials were called because of the flammability of the 80-proof liquor, he said.

(G stars are so called because of the prominence of a band of atomic and molecular spectral lines that the German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer designated G).

March 8 In 1917, Russia's February _________ (so called because of the Old Style calendar used by Russians at the time) began with rioting and strikes in St . Petersburg

With head torches on, we slipped into the Dragon's Cave, so called because of the roaring noise the sea makes whenever there's a decent swell.

The contiguous neighborhoods of Wicker Park and Bucktown (so called because of the goats supposedly raised there in the early eighteen-hundreds) ooze with gentrified grooviness.

PARK CITY, UTAH--Since the early 1980s researchers have known that the AIDS virus wreaks havoc on the body's defenses by destroying immune system cells called CD4 T lymphocytes--so-called because of the CD4 protein that studs their surface.

Transmission of trypanosomes, which cause Chagas disease in the American tropics, occurs through cone nose bugs (Reduviidae), so-called because of the shape of their head.

12 30 p.m. 4) NAVIGATION In the Crescent City, so-called because of the river's snaky pinch, there is no north, south, east and west.

Bladderwrack: So-called because of the bulbous "bladders" that run along its dark green leaves, it can be added to stocks or stews – or, Mckellar suggests, stir-fries.

This process then reverses and the sleeper enters a period of REM-stage sleep, so-called because of the characteristic rapid eye movements that are associated with it.