Sentence examples for character surnames from inspiring English sources

There are also instances in which character surnames reappear from story to story.

Nobody mentions the wonderful serendipity of the characters' surnames.

At the University of Michigan, he avoided giving his characters surnames so he "wouldn't be defined by place or ethnicity.

The novels borrowed plot points, characters, surnames, and plentiful Regency slang.

His characters' surnames are playfully packed with information: Archy Stallings is a 36-year-old who can't grow up.

In one of her novels, the characters' surnames were even in alphabetical order according to the order they were introduced.

Duncan's performance matches her character's surname.

The central character's surname has been changed and he has an older brother instead of a younger one, but the other details of his family are unmistakable.

Intriguingly, "Yossi" reveals the title character's surname to be Guttman, a seeming nod to Mr. Guttman the director and, in turn, the struggle for gay men to shed their self-hatred and emerge from the shadows of society.

"Before I worked for him I was kind of lazy – not lazy, I'm a hard worker, but I didn't know you had to know what the character's surname is if it's not in the script.

The subplot involves a bare-knuckle fight club led by Harrelson's irredeemable character, whose surname — De Groat — happens to be one of the most common among the real-life Ramapough Mountain Indians.