Sentence examples for devised the name from inspiring English sources

He and his mother devised the name Kodak while playing an anagram game.

So George Eastman displayed amazing intuition when, in 1888, he devised the name Kodak, on the ground that "k" was "a strong, incisive sort of letter".

The pair devised the name Hipgnosis, the partnership that they had started in 1967, by combining "hip" with the Greek word "gnosis", meaning "learning".

Morton devised the name Underoath "from somewhere in the Bible".

Finger said he devised the name Bruce Wayne for the character's secret identity: "Bruce Wayne's first name came from Robert Bruce, the Scottish patriot.

Simon, in his 1990 autobiography, disputed Kirby's account, asserting that Black Magic was not a factor, and that he (Simon) devised the name "Spider-Man" (later changed to "The Silver Spider"), while Kirby outlined the character's story and powers.

It was the enterprising Lübeck leathercrafter Franz-Heinrich Wallet — or his wife; experts disagree — who soon devised the eponymously named replacement.

After the infamous Tampa incident of 2001, when the conservative prime minister John Howard dispatched the SAS to prevent a Norwegian tanker carrying shipwrecked asylum-seekers from docking at Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island, Mr Howard devised the chillingly named "Pacific Solution".

That 100 years included the work of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of "Frankenstein"; Carl Linnaeus, who devised the system for naming plants and animals; the fiery poet William Blake John James Audubonn, the nature illustrator; and the writer Henry David Thoreau.

More than any other White House in history, Bush's has tried to starve, mock, weaken, bypass, devalue, intimidate, and deceive the press, using tactics far more toxic than any prose devised in the name of Spiro Agnew.

If you had to devise the perfect name for a modern politician, "Emmanuel Macron" would fit the bill.