Sentence examples for were so called from inspiring English sources

Chapbooks were so called because they were sold by peddlers known as chapmen.

They were so called because as deputies they sat on the higher benches of the assembly.

The Stoics were so called because they taught in the Stoa, the marketplace.

In the 4th century, chaplains (Latin cappellani) were so called because they kept St. Martin's famous half cape (cappella, diminutive of cappa).

The guns were so called because they were specially built to shell Paris at a range, never before attained, of approximately 121 km (75 miles).

Camisards were so called probably because of the white shirts (Languedocian camisa, French chemise) that they wore to recognize one another in night fighting.

They were so-called "chandelier bids", called out by the auctioneer himself in a theatrical attempt to get things moving.

There were so-called "home babies" in her school too.

One site showed that ∼32% of trapped S. balanoides were so-called 'faecal' cyprids.

The vast majority were so-called "express kidnaps" lasting less than a day.

But many of these groups were so-called 527s, which were required to disclose donors' identities.