How to Use given name in a Sentence

given name

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  • The team gave names to the pools the frogs called home.
    — Joe Dworetzky, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • No one has mourned enough of them, given name to enough of them.
    — Chris Searles, National Geographic, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The screen lit up with her name—not her given name, but one of my pet names for her.
    — Emily Bernard, The New Yorker, 25 June 2020
  • The show is part of the LSD Tour, using the first letter of each performer's given name.
    — Timothy Finn, kansascity, 23 Mar. 2018
  • At the center of it all was Nora, whose given name was Leonor.
    — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Natasha was born in 1970 and named for the Russian version of Natalia, Wood's given name.
    — Maria Carter, Country Living, 11 May 2017
  • Learned from Wikipedia that Oprah’s given name was Orpah.
    — Skyler Higley, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The rapper, whose given name was Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., was pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Deena Zaru, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Clay-Flores said the children were given name tags, cloth linens and pillows for their cots, as well as new jeans and gym shoes.
    — Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Mar. 2021
  • We also weren’t given names for any of the characters, which might make this write-up a bit awkward.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 12 June 2018
  • Although this is the first gallery show for the D.C. artist, whose given name is Tenbeete Solomon, her style may look familiar.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The full name of Jack Ma, whose given name in Chinese is Yun, has only two characters.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 3 May 2022
  • Many geese were given names with goose puns and/or after celebrities.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The caterpillars are usually plucked out of trees in the days before the race and given names, like racehorses.
    — Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The 68-year-old actor, whose given name is Ron Jeremy Hyatt, pleaded not guilty.
    — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Hagood — given name: Jake — was all too familiar with the feeling.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Resistance to rules and conventions is not new for Jay, whose given name is Samaria Johnson.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
  • Goo, often known by her given name Hara, worked hard to break into the K-pop industry after a rough childhood.
    — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Aware of the danger of their journey, many migrants make strenuous efforts to, in the event of their death, ensure that their bodies will be given names.
    — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • And yes, mama revealed that his character’s given name was Philliam.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • One of the elder Ohta brothers opened the tofu shop in partnership with a Mr. Nagaro in 1911, whose given name and place of origin are unknown.
    — Heather Arndt Anderson, Slate Magazine, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Jack, whose given name is Leonard, is the only family member who was born in America.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • People like my parents hoped to shield me by assigning me an Anglicized given name at birth.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Scientists had yet to give names to either one as of late Saturday afternoon.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2019
  • Bear Brook ultimately leads Moon across the country and into the latest scientific efforts used to give names to the faces of the four victims who were left in the forest all those years ago.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 18 Nov. 2018
  • The latter, whose given name is Armando Christian Pérez, has been outspoken about the unrest in Cuba.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
  • Those deemed important enough are also given name tags, a mark of prestige at one of the most celebrated social events on the calendar.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 18 June 2019
  • The 55-year-old music executive, whose given name is Andre Young, did not share why he was hospitalized.
    — Megan Thomas, CNN, 6 Jan. 2021
  • One of the highest achieving entrepreneurs in history, U2 front man and human rights activist Bono--given name Paul Hewson--puts his money/time/effort where his mouth is.
    — Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Because of an editing error, an obituary on Sunday about the union leader Hector Figueroa misspelled his wife’s given name.
    — New York Times, 17 July 2019

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