Sentence examples for namesake for from inspiring English sources

The exact namesake for Good King Henry may be lost to time.

The Brown Hotel is the namesake for a famous Louisville dish called a "Hot Brown".

Or so recalled Tommy Heath, 55, the lead singer and namesake for Tommy Tutone.

The president was the namesake for 388 schools, compared to 314 for the three previous presidents combined.

Eugène Ionesco, who loved and respected Sebastian, hated his namesake for creating a "stupid and reactionary Romania".

At best, they survive as the namesake for an airport or expressway (De Peyster Street in downtown Manhattan was swallowed up in the 1960s by new skyscrapers).

It was a good legal strategy that a longtime Christian clergyman became the namesake for Gannon v Kansas, a lawsuit bent on increasing funding for a secular institution.

He became ambassador to Japan under President John Kennedy, and today is the namesake for Harvard's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

This extravaganza became the namesake for the Montreal Expos, a franchise that was created on May 27 , 1968 for the astronomical price of $10 million.

But for the last seven years, members of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Lower Manhattan have also looked to their parish's namesake for something else: patience.

According to the documentary, "The Search for General Tso," he was merely the namesake for a dish invented by a Hunanese chef, Peng Chang-kuei.