Sentence examples for known used from inspiring English sources

Mexico's inhabitants mostly neither knew nor - presumably - cared about the methods his dipos (as the DIPD detectives were known) used to keep crime under control.

In a rally on Friday night, Mr. Medgyssey, a low-key politician who is not well known, used words that implied "calm" a dozen or more times.

In 2005, Brent DeWitt, an American "professor" (as Punch and Judy performers are known), used Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden as villains in a performance in the United Kingdom.

To keep the press in the dark, Lois, as she was then known, used the code name "Dr. Casey" — suggested by the television series "Ben Casey" — when leaving messages at Mr. Ribicoff's office.

The room evokes an era when baymen lived off the land and the waters, and market gunners, as the commercial hunters here were known, used decoys to shoot vast numbers of birds and took them to the Fulton and Washington Street markets in Lower Manhattan, where they were sold to restaurants like Delmonico's.

Kinder, as he is known, used animal prints subtly, blending them in a black dress and smudgy, painterly prints that looked what they were: a subtle vision of Africa interpreted by the designer after reading an 18th-century memoir, "Travels into the Interior District of Africa".

And ironically enough that may be the key to his success as a businessman.The majors, as the big labels are known, used to have talent-spotting music men at their head, but now a television producer and a journalist head the second-biggest, Sony BMG; a group of private-equity firms own a big chunk of Warner Music Group; and EMI's chairman used to run a biscuit company.

It is probably the oldest myocutaneous flap known, used most commonly in reconstructive surgery.