Sentence examples for splendid names from inspiring English sources

They care about preserving dialects, old maps, regional foods, parish customs – and the wonderful range of English apples, of which there are thought to be more than 2,000 different varieties, with splendid names such as Beauty of Bath, Blenheim Orange, Worcester Pearmain and Ribston Pippin.

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove was a brilliant dissection of the folly of nuclear deterrence marked by Peter Seller's bravura performance in three roles and the splendid names given to the characters -- from Generals Buck Turgidson and Jack D. Ripper to Major Bat Guano and Dr. Strangelove himself.

There was his splendid name: Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings.

This is a splendid name for an affliction, and we hate to see it wasted on such a specialized minority.

There's a camel on the cover of Too Small to Fail, who goes by the splendid name of Moo.

Clever, clever".Mark Bender is a splendid name for a physiotherapist for that is what he is," says Duncan Critchley.

Though happy in his marriage, Gosse also had a long, close relationship with a sculptor, a man with the splendid name of Hamo Thornycroft.

I'm also intrigued to put a face to to a splendid name, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, who is at number four on the Worcestershire card.

The whole thing was created by Mopar, the Chrysler group's in-house parts and accessories arm, and they shrouded the lot in a wide-arch body painted in a colour with the splendid name of Destroyer Grey.

Performance of the Week goes to their Australian bowler Timm van der Gugten, who plays his international cricket (if, perhaps, for no other reason than that splendid name) for the Netherlands.

One of the hotel waiters has a splendid name, which to a scallywag like me poses no end of potential amusement.