Sentence examples for was commonly known from inspiring English sources

Thereafter he was commonly known as Colonel House.

Many neighbors said it was commonly known that Ulysses suffered from autism; city officials said he had a severe form.

Once a village of laborers, it was commonly known as Bricktown and billed itself as the Brickmaking Capital of America.

This notwithstanding the fact that Peck, in his playing days, was commonly known as Silky Legs.

The head of a ruling family was commonly known as the nizam.

This enlarged collection was commonly known in the European Middle Ages.

In Hellenistic times, Osiris was commonly known by the name Serapis.

This footage of the remaining "red cars" (as the Pacific Electric's fleet was commonly known) strikes an elegiac tone, especially to modern Angelenos.

In the early 1990's, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the offices of N.M.E., as the company was commonly known.

Rabbi Schneerson, the seventh leader of the Lubavitch movement, who was commonly known as the Rebbe, died in 1994.

Men's clothing was added through the 1968 acquisition of Swedish hunting-gear retailer Mauritz Widforss, after which time the firm was commonly known as H&M.