Sentence examples for naming from inspiring English sources
The word "naming" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the action of giving a name to someone or something. For example, "The parents had a hard time coming up with a suitable name for their baby, but they eventually settled on naming her Elizabeth."
verb
Present participle of name
At one stage there was even discussion about naming the BBC trust as the "Public Broadcasting Trust".
Sources told the Guardian in the summer that the FSA had come under pressure from DH, Defra and the No 10 communications team, who were worried that naming retailers over campylobacter could create a food scare on a par with the salmonella panic in 1988.
Shirlow points out that both Sinn Féin and the less stridently nationalist SDLP recently voted to retain a policy of naming a children's playground after the IRA hunger striker Raymond McCreesh in Newry.
Ashcroft did not prompt voters by naming candidates, although he did ask voters to think of the candidates standing in the constituency.
The broadcaster argued O'Brien's suggestion that the report could have been run without naming him would result in a boring and sterile story.
The first set of results naming retailers over contamination was supposed to be published in June, but after pressure from other government departments, the FSA backed down.
Traditional, with royal precedent and a nod to both families; the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have played it safe by naming their newborn daughter Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.
The important thing about his appearance was, first, that selling the story of Dryden's wife to the press is just the sort of dodgy thing he'd do (and for series one viewers it's quite amusing to imagine that Nige's little leak is at least partly responsible for the whole mess) and, second, to give Dot his alibi by naming Cole, incorrectly, as the caddy.
Wary, too, of advocating a tyranny of the nominal – a taxonomic need to point and name, with the intent of citing and owning – when in fact I perceive no opposition between precision and mystery, or between naming and not knowing.
His most exciting innovation, launching next month, is a new text message anti-corruption campaign, a global naming-and-shaming project.
And, in any matter, Le Shop de Top is now selling something called "girlfriend jeans" which either suggests an unexpected acknowledgement of same-sex relationships from a high-street retailer or, more likely, a realisation that women want something a little more feminine than bullclips from their jeans, and a hasty re-naming was in order.
