Sentence examples for name of thing from inspiring English sources

The best is to use a single short word that must be a noun ("a name of thing").

M aybe (he kept thinking) it was the name of things.

Nothing, including the names of things, is simple in Berlin.

Finally the names of things one believed to be true.

The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion.

"The names of things don't come first," says one character — Ivan Turgenev Jason Butler Harnerr), as it happens.

Honestly, the girl hardly seemed to know the names of things.

Inside the heart, she asked them to write the names of things and people dear to them.

And "it is with the precise naming of things," McWilliam believes, "that my sight will, if it will, return".

Names, therefore, shall always be spoken of in this work as the names of things themselves, and not merely of our ideas of things".

He writes, "Are names more properly said to be the names of things, or of our ideas of things?" Mill clearly believes the former, not the latter.