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Example sentences for "assumed name"

  • Sophia has long since ceased all correspondence with her wretched and abandoned mother, who has become the keeper (under an assumed name) of a celebrated and fashionable brothel in West Cedar street.

  • Let us go to Boston, and dwell there under an assumed name.

  • You are living here under an assumed name, and I have a suspicion that Madame Virtue is not aware of it.

  • Distracted, and scarcely knowing what he was about, he left the house and took a morning train to London, where, living under an assumed name, he had been in hiding ever since.

  • His silence, his long concealment in London under an assumed name, the incriminating articles in his possession, which he had given up to the police, were strong points against him.

  • By what means Maxwell discovered John Fordham in hiding in London under an assumed name, and how he worked upon the unhappy man's feelings till the poor fellow was beggared, is fully explained by Fordham himself in his Confession.

  • We find him there under an assumed name, on his way to Europe.

  • I received a letter from this man, signed with an assumed name, stating that he could supply me with some important information that would be of the greatest possible use to the Government.

  • But Gregory, no doubt, was an assumed name, like Stent alias Strange.

  • Mr Williams, an assumed name like my own, is my youngest and favourite brother.

  • This he himself recognised, with the result that within twenty-four hours after the verdict had been given he escaped from England under an assumed name.

  • Of course our man was living under an assumed name, and had traveled under an assumed one; we might have every difficulty in getting upon his track.

  • There was a subsequent incident in which you did learn that he used an assumed name, was there not?

  • And why does the young man come here under an assumed name, and when he is discovered, claim to be my son?

  • Deep in his soul the eye of his own conscience regarded him,--an outcast hiding under an assumed name, covering the scar above his temple with a falling lock of hair seldom lifted, and deep in his soul a memory of a love.

  • The man claims to be Peter Junior himself, but as he registered at the hotel under an assumed name it is likely to be only another attempt to get the reward money by some detective.

  • I committed a crime, and I'm living under an assumed name.

  • Except for the time in New Orleans that you described, and the time you called to Dallas to ask for your husband, do you know of any other time your husband was using an assumed name?

  • Then he said that he had lived there under an assumed name.

  • Did he give you any explanation of why he was using an assumed name at that time?

  • And I accept it, and go under an assumed name.

  • For fear of dragging in his government, and perhaps incurring dismissal from the army, he gave an assumed name--Mountjoy.

  • I lived on in Montreal, under an assumed name, as a common porter, and might have been living there yet; but one day as I came in I heard the name of 'Brandon.

  • Tyrrel appears here but as a simple gentleman, wearing, for obvious reasons, an assumed name.

  • Wearing an assumed name, father, and acting a part, here, at the Dove Cote!

  • If he has obtained an authority to treat with you or others under an assumed name, it has only been to further his personal ends.

  • I have as much right on board her as you, and from the fact that you are booked under an assumed name I imagine that I have more right.

  • Then why did he travel under an assumed name?

  • Following the instructions of his chief, Tarzan had booked his passage under an assumed name--John Caldwell, London.

  • The great stumbling-block was the undeniable fact that Julius Hersheimmer was not an assumed name.

  • Now, if the girl had been placed there it would almost certainly be under an assumed name.

  • Tommy appreciated her quick-wittedness in realizing that he might be staying at the inn under an assumed name.

  • He had had a facer, but he had also shown the witness to have been living under an assumed name.

  • It was as though, while he was living under an assumed name, the real James Shiel Gathorne Crozier did not exist, or was in the far background of the doings and sayings of J.

  • There was nothing criminal in living under an assumed name, which, anyhow, was his own name in three-fourths of it, and in the other part was the name of the county where he was born.

  • Well, he became interested in what I told him; and when he learned that I believed my father's papers were in all probability somewhere in Hume's apartments, he suggested that I come to live in Christie Place under an assumed name.

  • Morris has been spending at least part of his time with Spatola under an assumed name; they are known to have been very much engaged in some secret matter.

  • It was also suggested to me that Hume might be an assumed name--that the numismatist might have once been known as Wayne, and that Locke had known him by that name.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assumed name" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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