Sentence examples for were sometimes known from inspiring English sources

Fans were sometimes known to wager on the results.

But it also became heavily used by doctors who administered it intravenously in outpatient clinics for periodic patient "tune-ups," as they were sometimes known.

These Hitchcocko-Hawksians, as they were sometimes known, set out to change French cinema, and in assessing their campaign, "Two in the Wave" becomes frustratingly vague.

Players were sometimes known to feel indisposed on the day before they had to play the Flyers, and this was known as having a case of the Philadelphia flu.

They first appeared in the late 17th century when the wings were sometimes known as "cheeks"—and they have maintained their popularity through a series of revivals ever since.

In Britain, these independents were sometimes known as "guinea pigs"—for a guinea (£1.05) and a free lunch they were happy to sleep through any chief executive's presentation of his corporate plan.The guinea pigs have gone.

This is sometimes known as homicidal cannibalism.

In Philadelphia, whiting is sometimes known as mountain trout.

For this reason, they are sometimes known as slime eels.

Common tansy (T. vulgare) is sometimes known as golden-buttons.

It is sometimes known as Murdoch's Myopia; sadly incurable.