by the name of
idiom
1
: used to indicate the name that is used for someone or something
Her name is Susan, but she goes by the name of Sue.
2
: having the name : named
Do you know a man by the name of James Smith?
Examples of by the name of in a Sentence
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And there was a real good guy by the name of Daniel Powell who was the showrunner on, with Jessi Klein.
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Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
Then, on January 28, 1936, another inmate by the name of James Day attacked Loeb in the prison shower, slashing him more than 50 times with a razor.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2024
The story begins in 1964, when a maverick Irish businessman by the name of Ronan O'Rahilly decided to break the BBC monopoly and set-up a station on a ship in international waters off the English coast.
—Tom Rivers, ABC News, 18 May 2024
Another $55,000 went to someone by the name of Daquan Williams, who also had nothing to do with the production, the suit states.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 2 May 2024
The YouTube page where Fetty found the original beat was owned by a producer by the name of Tony Fadd who happened to be based in Belarus.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 22 Apr. 2024
Its scribe was an up-and-coming Scot by the name of Grant Morrison.
—Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
There was the year in math class when the teacher kept calling her by the name of another Black student.
—Collin Binkley, Annie Ma, and Noreen Nasir, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
But the saying’s origin may date back roughly a century earlier, when a New York family by the name of Jones took control of Chemical Bank and began to eclipse even the other extraordinarily wealthy clans in the fast-growing city in terms of capital—or, at least, the willingness to show it off.
—The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
Then, on January 28, 1936, another inmate by the name of James Day attacked Loeb in the prison shower, slashing him more than 50 times with a razor.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2024
The story begins in 1964, when a maverick Irish businessman by the name of Ronan O'Rahilly decided to break the BBC monopoly and set-up a station on a ship in international waters off the English coast.
—Tom Rivers, ABC News, 18 May 2024
Another $55,000 went to someone by the name of Daquan Williams, who also had nothing to do with the production, the suit states.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 2 May 2024
The YouTube page where Fetty found the original beat was owned by a producer by the name of Tony Fadd who happened to be based in Belarus.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 22 Apr. 2024
Its scribe was an up-and-coming Scot by the name of Grant Morrison.
—Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
There was the year in math class when the teacher kept calling her by the name of another Black student.
—Collin Binkley, Annie Ma, and Noreen Nasir, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
But the saying’s origin may date back roughly a century earlier, when a New York family by the name of Jones took control of Chemical Bank and began to eclipse even the other extraordinarily wealthy clans in the fast-growing city in terms of capital—or, at least, the willingness to show it off.
—The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
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