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
Evelyn is a pretty name, and her Cherokee cousins in Oklahoma are my neighbors.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
I ain’t pretty but I got me a pretty name.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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
