"name" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His nature is coarse, and so he glorifies his selfish lusts under high-sounding names" (43).
- Possibly it was a castellated abomination in the suburbs with a high-sounding name invented by its owner.
- That's a very high-sounding name for it.
- "The crucial thing for Nora is money or - to give it a more high-sounding name, economic resources," Lu Xun explained.
- "There was no Ashton," the author writes, "but it was considered a euphonious and high-sounding name."
- All the sons were given high-sounding names, mostly meaning "son".
- The Indian, who went by the high-sounding name of "Mountain Cat", proved himself at once to be efficient, very strong, but also very silent.
- It's just a high-sounding name whereby he and all the other so-called Republicans think to justify the civil war they pushed Rome into.
- It lies with the politicians at different levels, right back to Brussels, who still believe in the efficacy of high-sounding names.
- It has a high-sounding name, but there's no reason for you and me to beat around the bush, Mason.
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.