Sentence examples for classic names from inspiring English sources

One Jennifer (Griffin) makes a case for classic names in "Bring Back Beatrice!

General Motors Oldsmobilee division has replaced all of its classic names, including the Cutlass.

Chevrolet recently introduced several cars with classic names like Impala, Monte Carlo and Malibu.

But many more cars with classic names are a stretch, bearing little resemblance to their ancestors.

Andrew Gelman, a statistics professor at Columbia and an amateur name-ologist, argues that many parents want their boys to seem mature and so pick classic names.

Thanks to fashionable interest, the roster of classic names is well known, too: Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Tapio Wirkkala and others from the 1950's and 60's.

It's a classic name.

He prefers the classic name.

I wish I had given him a classic name such as William or Benjamin.

Of Scottish ancestry, her Dundee cake is a variation on the classic, named for the city famous for its marmalade industry.

Through May 5 A photographer should have the gift of seeing the world "fresh and strange," said Bill Brandt (1904-1983), a classic name in photography.