Sentence examples for it was even called from inspiring English sources

"We brought funky on quite early, before it was even called funky," Geeneus says.

The most important one was Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, whose investment fund supported Mr. D'Aloisio's idea early on, before it was even called Summly.

She remembers once asking her grandmother why it was even called "ice" cream, when by all rights it should be called warm cream, or maybe hot cream.

No one knew where it was made or what it was even called, so I was unable to find any information about its provenance – just use your favourite blue cheese for this dish.

Coal, for instance, long came to London from north-east England by boat; it was even called sea-coal.And by around 1600 even the Atlantic had lost some of its terrors.

And it was even called Zappos Labs unofficially.

It's even called Tassili, after a nearby mountain range.

It's even called 'A.B.D.' It would have been more of a lie to have never mentioned M.I.T.

We heard a new one crash into being from some distant, groaning glacier (it's even called 'calving'calving

The French Open's "Sunday Start" – it is even called that in French – can make the opening rounds in Paris drag, while the US Open contorts itself around the preferences of TV schedules, losing momentum in the process.

(It's even called the Wal-Mart Effect).