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
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
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I ain’t pretty but I got me a pretty name.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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“You have, a, uh, pretty name and all.”
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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