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Example sentences for "christened"

Lexicographically close words:
chretienne; chrism; chrisom; christall; christen; christening; christenings; christens; christianae; christianitie
  1. And this was the best hotel in the "Paris of Siberia," as enthusiastic Siberians have christened their capital.

  2. Many Yakutes grow wealthy in the fur, fish or ivory trades, and are so shrewd in their dealings that Russians have christened them the "Jews of Siberia.

  3. The foaming crest of the wave, following the first downward sweep, is supposed to resemble a white horse's mane, which circumstance christened the fall.

  4. It was christened the Republican party at its birth.

  5. In 1618, Jan Edels went along the western coast, and christened it by his own name.

  6. He christened them forthwith, without the least hesitation, and marked them down on the map, qualifying them with the most high-sounding adjectives he could find in the Spanish language.

  7. It was she, she who christened me Prince!

  8. All her people, she informed him gravely, she christened out of stories.

  9. Drake, who never left the Pacific shores, named the country New Albion, from the whiteness of a headland on the coast; but the first viceroys were less ridiculously misled by patriotic vanity when they christened it New Spain.

  10. I mean Val M'Clutchy, or Val the Vulture, as they have very properly christened him.

  11. The boys christened her "Mrs. Smilie," after a lady of that name whom they thought she resembled, and the poor thing came to a tragic end.

  12. I had him christened David Livingstone, and I dressed him in a blue serge man-of-war suit; but he ran away.

  13. That at Ladock Old Artful changed himself into a raven, and made an inspection of the church tower; but the babies brought to be christened made such a row that he flew away.

  14. She was christened Ann, plain Ann, and was a good little girl, with blue eyes, and light brown hair much given to curl into love locks.

  15. There is one spring which insures a man from hanging if he is but christened with its water in childhood.

  16. Presently they began to go up a great river which they christened the James.

  17. One of these children, the daughter of John Rolfe, gentleman, and his wife, was christened Bermuda.

  18. Julliard followed commerce and literature; he maintained a stage line, and a journal christened "La Ruche," in which latter he burned incense to Mme.

  19. A child, christened Charles, was born of this union, but he perished at an early age under very tragic circumstances.

  20. She was the mother of the dramatic author Jean-Francois du Bruel, christened Cursy on the Parisian bill-boards.

  21. The Methodists were christened and the Baptists were baptised.

  22. I was baptised by the white Baptist minister and christened by a Methodist minister.

  23. We had no baptising, we were christened by the white preacher.

  24. She formed a corps of Greek cadets, caused her younger grandson to be christened Constantine, and began the policy of presenting Russia to the Christian subjects of the Porte as their deliverer.

  25. The child of my thought is christened by the recognition which comes from the heart of one who is "faithful over the few things," and therefore claims the promise which many with enlarged privileges fail to acknowledge.

  26. The deserted building was bought by the Episcopalians, and christened “Christ Church.

  27. So they christened each other in the brook, and went on; but when they had walked a while they came to a cross road, and agreed they should part there, and each take his own road.

  28. The upper strake of my boat I also painted yellow, and to finish off christened my craft the "Yellow Boy.

  29. Flap," for so I christened him, was a large grey and white gull which I secured soon after coming to the island, by breaking his wing at a long shot.

  30. We christened them Adam and Eve, and like a couple of cannibals declared our intention of eating them for our supper when we got ashore.

  31. We'll take him and have him christened while she's away, and we'll not give her the chance to put it off again because he cries.

  32. It was an out-of-the-way place where they lived, and there was no priest near, or she never could have kept it from being christened as long as she did.

  33. Ellen Sullivan, that child will be christened before I leave this house.

  34. Then it was right for her to christen him," the priest answered, "and he'll not need to be christened again.

  35. The neighbors came and they told her it was not her child at all, but one of the Good People that had been put in the place of it, and it was all her own fault for not having it christened in the right time.

  36. The neighbors told her she was doing wrong to wait so long and she ought to have the child christened before anything would happen to it.

  37. Cradled and christened frae goblin's despite, House-folk we hear the kirk bells through the night.

  38. Were it not better they should live like christened souls than be hunted like beasts?

  39. There's no two ways of duty for any christened soul.

  40. I am the most wretched fellow: sure some left-handed priest hath christened me, I am so unlucky; I am never out of one puddle or another; still falling.

  41. Tell me, tormentor, shall fair Agripyne, Without more difference be now christened mine!

  42. By Fortune's blessed hand, who christened me, The mighty Soldan shall have such a purse, Provided I may see these priceless wonders.

  43. Just across the river from them they could see a beautiful cascade some two or three hundred feet in height, and they christened this the Lottie Falls, after a sister of Uncle Dick, which name it has to-day.

  44. Leo and his cousin George, as has been stated, took the lead in the boat which the party christened the Lizzie W.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "christened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.