Sentence examples for spectacular naming from inspiring English sources

It is surely not a coincidence that the two spectacular naming triumphs of the cyberworld are coinages verging on nonsense: yahoo!

(It should have a more spectacular name, but that's science for you).

Bored, he begins to frequent a high-class bordello, where he falls in love with a "spectacular whore" named Mireya, putting the proprietors on edge.

Rachel Alexandra's return to the track was stalled when she was beaten last month in the New Orleans Ladies Stakes by a solid but hardly spectacular mare named Zardana.

The di Portanova residence in Acapulco, a spectacular villa named Arabesque, was at one time said to be the largest in Acapulco.

THE ROOM Although I had booked a "Cozy" room, the hotel offered to upgrade me to a class of room that they have named "Spectacular" at no charge.

The Vikings — including a spectacular rookie receiver named Randy Moss, who joined the Patriots before this season — finished that regular season at 15-1.

April 30 , 1979— This is the week when dear little old ladies in Shawano, Wis., get to know about sports figures named Spectacular Bid and Flying Paster.

The spectacular Chauvet cave, named after the spelunker who discovered it in 1994, stunned the art world with its pack of hunting lions, its great panel of horses, fighting rhinos and nearly 300 other figures.

Freetown's principal attraction is the beaches: in the centre, Lumley beach stretches for a couple of miles, lined with beach bars and the occasional small restaurant, while further afield are the truly spectacular (and oddly named) River Number 2, Tokeh and, a little further out, the Banana Islands, complete with wreck dives.

Like Affirmed, Seattle Slew and Secretariat, Spectacular Bid had been named juvenile champion the previous year.