Sentence examples for improbable name from inspiring English sources

Funny, improbable name; funny, improbable candidate.

A ladies' man, Costa is involved with a British agent who has the improbable name Roxanne.

An All-American football player from Butte, in the early '60s, had the improbable name of Bob O'Billovich.

The steadiest jobs are at the nearby jail.In a hamlet with the improbable name of Money, I stand outside the store where Till blew that fatal wolf-whistle.

Evidently aimed at a clientele of transients like myself, it went by the improbable name of the Dew Drop Inn, and cost fifty cents a night per cubicle.

The banker-bashing tabloids have regaled readers with tales of top-earning Barclays executives — one of whom carries the improbable name of Rich Ricci — trying their luck at the racetracks.

"He has now found these names, improbable names – Rhodes Boyson: I don't see Rhodes Boyson with little boys.

One thing that has changed since the 1960s is the franchise's habit of giving female characters wildly improbable names (although many are only allowed one name).

The idea that Democrats try to win elections by arranging for hordes of nonexistent people with improbable names to vote for them has long been a favorite theme of Rove-era Republicans.

By Hendrik Hertzberg October 15, 2008 The idea that Democrats try to win elections by arranging for hordes of nonexistent people with improbable names to vote for them has long been a favorite theme of Rove-era Republicans.

The North Koreans proved to be the Teddy bears of the tournament — eleven little men in white with improbable names like Lim Zoong Sun and Pak Doo Ik, natural underdogs who ran themselves to exhaustion against a powerful and imperturbable Russian team, which won without difficulty, three goals to none.