pretty name
Example Sentences
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“How did you get that name, huh? It’s a really pretty name, Jeannie.”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015
In Idaho, he notes, “The pretty name of Coeur d’Alene was rolling French for drill-bit.”
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2011
Don’t you think Commerce is a awful improvement over a pretty name like Harmony Grove?”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
“You have, a, uh, pretty name and all.”
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
Many hundreds of years ago, he had once told Meggie, people made the bindings for particularly valuable books from the skin of unborn calves, charta virginea non nata, a pretty name for a terrible thing.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
