Sentence examples for so named for from inspiring English sources

Canton enamel, Chinese painted enamel, so named for the principal place of its manufacture, Canton.

It is so named for the spurs supposedly taken from the vanquished.

Clovis belonged to the Merovingian dynasty, so named for his grandfather, Merovich.

The Carboniferous Period of the Paleozoic is so named for massive, widespread coal deposits.

Black Belt, physical region in Alabama and Mississippi, U.S., so named for its soil.

It is so named for its discoverer, Ignaz Paul Troxler, born in Switzerland in 1780.

El Tigre, so named for his predatory traits, has looked comparatively timid.

It was so named, for example, in a 1976 bicentennial poll of architects and scholars.

Some say it comes from the Spanish -- vientos de Sat?(devil winds, so named for their heat).

In Port Sulphur, so named for its now abandoned sulfur mines, most houses had been reduced to construction debris.

Antibodies belong to the class of proteins called globulins, so named for their globular structure.