Sentence examples for christened after from inspiring English sources

He calls me Marian because that's what I was christened, after Maid Marian.

In 2010, a group of international researchers published a paper about the increased prevalence of an enzyme known as New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1, christened after the city in which it originated.

Among the many ironies of the battle is that its name was taken from a small chink-and-mortar Methodist chapel on the battlefield that had been christened after the Hebrew expression for "Place of Peace".

The upshot is that when we talk about the Empire State Building, it no longer sounds as if we are talking about a building christened after the great state of New York.

But there's one vital missing piece of this resurrection – the oft-fabled release of band's tracks through online retail stores – and, in particular, that of the computer maker christened after the Beatles' own label, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL Corpss.

When Cindy Adams reported in November 2008 that Mr. Schnabel was housing both Ms. Garmendia (with whom he has teenage twins; there are also three children from his marriage to Jacqueline Beaurang, a designer) and Ms. Jebreal at the Palazzo Chupi, his Pompeii-red building on the West Side Highway christened after his nickname for Ms. Garmendia, the blogosphere went wild.

In turn, her adopted family of friends and colleagues reciprocates: her assistant Malcolm Taylor has been with her for the past 25 years; and in an astonishing instance of employee devotion, Sweetpea, formerly Jane Slight, whom Holt re-christened after the baby character in the Popeye comic strip when they met 15 years ago, has adopted this pet-name by deed poll.

Then, after a subpar season, they were unofficially christened again after beating the defending champion San Antonio Spurs in the second round.

Marie Antoinette was christened Maria Antonia, after all.

Ersy was christened Eugenie, after her mother, and her partner, Ms. Roberts, a photographer, was named Louise.

At that time, Verrazano christened New York after the home province of King Francois, "Angouleme".