How to Use by the name of in a Sentence

by the name of

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  • Brief clips from the special are shown in the spoof shared on social media, accompanied by corrections or confirmations by a fact-checker by the name of Katie.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • While visiting her son's memorial on a cliff in the woods, the grieving mother plans to kill herself until a man by the name of Richard (Finn Wittrock) talks her off the ledge.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Don’t be fooled by the name of the Texas city called Godley.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 7 June 2023
  • The year kicks off with a sacred month by the name of Muharram.
    Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 12 June 2023
  • In the end, the first two races were won by a 16-year-old kid from Santee, Calif., by the name of Marty Tripes.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • For about three months, Angie had been seeing a painter by the name of Frank Wade.
    Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The label was called Nicetown Records and was run by an ex-prison guard by the name of Ted Wing.
    Jonathan Rowe and Chris Schwartz, SPIN, 2 Nov. 2023
  • In charge of polishing all those prospects: a coach by the name of Joe Maddon.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Its scribe was an up-and-coming Scot by the name of Grant Morrison.
    Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The Stunt The story begins with a man by the name of Charlie Cinnamon.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The story of Atlanta started with a hustle... and a guy known by the name of Chicken Man.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 23 July 2024
  • And there was a real good guy by the name of Daniel Powell who was the showrunner on, with Jessi Klein.
    Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
  • He was impressed with an East Ender by the name of Mickey Davies, who features in the film.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
  • One of the moments that brought me such joy was when a local high school student by the name of Shakur Jackson.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Once upon a time, in the magical land of New York City, there lived a bright young man by the name of Apollo.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In 1932, a linguist by the name of George Zipf had his students count the letters in the book Ulysses to see how many there were of each letter.
    Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • In 2017, Red Bull got itself a new driver by the name of Max Verstappen.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 May 2024
  • But essentially there is a man by the name of Osama Abuirshaid.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
  • On that day, Neeley happened to enter a train car with a rider by the name of Daniel Penny.
    Victoria Bekiempis, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2024
  • And what’s with all those letters and numbers by the name of each competition?
    Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Hacking gangs are often known by the name of their ransomware variant.
    David Voreacos, Fortune, 19 July 2024
  • Another young actor in Charlie’s class was a guy by the name of Martin Sheen.
    Al Pacino, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • At the time, Wade noted that his child had decided to go by the name of Zaya, and be referred to by she/her pronouns.
    Wendy Geller, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The complainant had no employee by the name of the person accused of stealing, police said.
    Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Buzz around Millz’s work started in July, when a TikTok user by the name of @justdesean posted a video to his page.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In the '90s, the comedy genre saw a seismic shift in its side-splitting landscape with the emergence of a certain over-the-top, zany comic by the name of Jim Carrey.
    Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 July 2022
  • Her father, Jason Johnson, was a local rap hero who went by the name of Camouflage.
    Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • But some lil girl by the name of Elle King apparently cussed and insulted some of Dolly’s fans by not knowing a song.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2024
  • And what really helped me the first part of recovery was seeing South Carolina get such a great coach by the name of Eddie Fogler.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 28 Feb. 2024

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