Sentence examples for inopportune naming from inspiring English sources

He requested the change due to the "infamy brought by the inopportune naming of the road".

In "Amundsen," the story about the schoolteacher and the doctor, there's a character both the principals wish weren't there: a schoolgirl named Mary, clever, needy, a bit of a wiseass, who turns up at inopportune moments.

Nessa is eager to leave her current husband, Carl V. Gene Myerss), but picks an inopportune time to do so; she arrives at Arloc's house, newly liberated, only to find a man named Boyd Jason Romass) there, bound and gagged in a chair.

The word "malapropos" is found in print from 1630 with the sense of "in an inopportune, inappropriate, or awkward manner," hence Mrs. Malaprop's name, and the meaning of "malapropism," namely the use of an incorrect word in place of a word of similar sound, e.g. "pineapple" for "pinnacle" in "He is the very pineapple of politeness".

Names, even of close friends, can evade him at inopportune moments.

For the Torrington family of Sterne, a house grand enough to merit a name, a train accident on the nearby line occurs at the most inopportune time.

The timing may be inopportune.

Committed penalties at inopportune times.

It strikes at inopportune times.

"And it's coming at a really inopportune time".

The timing of the blizzard was especially inopportune for him.