Sentence examples for peculiar names from inspiring English sources

A ghost story invited peculiar names, Hill said, telling us that she liked to browse through phone directories and, especially, local newspapers.

Bart Becht, who was at the helm of Benckiser before taking over as chief executive of the merged company, is one of the best-paid bosses in Britain.As he announced results for 2007 on February 13th, analysts and investors expected impressive growth in sales and profits, and a preview of new products with peculiar names.

I normally have my hands full keeping track of Asia's fast-moving economies, but I just spent a few minutes getting to know the more obscure economies of Domestica, Essendonia, Coonawarra and Clintonstan.These imaginary lands with peculiar names illustrate the IMF's balance-of-payments textbook, a gripping read.

But his own name was sometimes troublesome to him: people were always restoring the missing L and garbling his middle name, which looks vaguely Welsh to a non-Welshman but must have been made up by one of our semi-literate northern-Missouri ancestors, plenty of whom had had peculiar names of their own: Risdon, Fleeta, Orvall, Olin, Melton.

It also had a peculiar name, obviously Russian.

(As to the company's peculiar name, more later).

LET'S begin with the peculiar name, industry(food).

At one point she says: "Actually, I think Nancy's a pretty peculiar name for me.

Perhaps none of the retreats has a more peculiar name than the Trinity Danish Young People's Society.

Ethel is such a peculiar name for a string quartet that it too could only be a new-music group.

This small bright Moroccan restaurant has a lot more going for it than the peculiar name suggests.