Sample Sentences for
appellation
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    "But we're his parents!" proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation.  (source)
    appellation = designation
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    The appellation "children" stung, though Clary was aware that as far as Shadowhunters were concerned, everyone under eighteen was a child and subject to different rules.  (source)
    appellation = designation or classification
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    Whatever opinions Lee had of Washington, he kept to himself, except to remark that he thought the appellation "Excellency" perfectly absurd.  (source)
    appellation = formal title
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    Even the appellation "House of Usher" suggests European monarchy and aristocracy—the Houses of Bourbon or Hanover, for instance—rather than an American place or family.  (source)
    appellation = descriptive name
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    But Waugh pointedly chose to ignore these native appellations (as well as official policy encouraging the retention of local or ancient names), and Everest was the name that stuck, Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed.†  (source)
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    A man who bears the idiotic appellation Tyrone.†  (source)
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    All adults had to be addressed as Mister, Missus, Miss, Auntie, Cousin, Unk, Uncle, Buhbah, Sister, Brother and a thousand other appellations indicating familial relationship and the lowliness of the addressor.†  (source)
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    Ang Dorje a very common Sherpa appellation; the fact that each of these names was shared by two or more Sherpas on Everest in 1996 was a source of occasional confusion.†  (source)
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    It is with an effort that I recall the figures and appellations of these few.†  (source)
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    Addison peered over his glasses at Enoch and said, "And by what appellation, dare I ask, are you denominated?"†  (source)
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    Even if Pierre were not a Frenchman, having once received that loftiest of human appellations he could not renounce it, said the officer's look and tone.†  (source)
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    Under the appellation of Roger Chillingworth, the reader will remember, was hidden another name, which its former wearer had resolved should never more be spoken.†  (source)
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    This exception was found in the person of a scholar, who, although no relation, bore the same Christian and surname as myself;—a circumstance, in fact, little remarkable; for, notwithstanding a noble descent, mine was one of those everyday appellations which seem, by prescriptive right, to have been, time out of mind, the common property of the mob.†  (source)
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