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Example sentences for "commonly known"

  • Charles, commonly known as Carolus Magnus or Charlemagne, succeeded Pepin in the year 768.

  • In Germany, in the city of Mainz, Johann zum Gansefleisch, commonly known as Johann Gutenberg, had just invented a new method of copying books.

  • It is commonly known as white pine in every region where it grows, and in many where the living tree is never seen, except when planted for ornament.

  • The spring is still there, and in the neighbourhood is commonly known even at this day as George Fox's Well.

  • Some seemed not to have borne age so well as their neighbours, and to have sunk a little on one side under their infirmities.

  • The chapel of Rivington, with which the memory of the Willoughbys is so closely associated, presents a venerable aspect, though it has no very great antiquity to boast of.

  • No allowance was made for the item commonly known as "adaptation and solidification," except in the item of contingencies and in the consideration of the present value of the ballast.

  • The Huguenots desired what is commonly known as liberty of conscience; or, in other words, freedom to worship God according to their own views of the truth, without interference or restriction.

  • The reference is to the Scoudic, commonly known as the River St Croix.

  • This species is commonly known as brain-coral or brain-stone.

  • Chondrus crispus/, commonly known as Irish moss, was a few years ago generally used as an article of diet.

  • About the end of the year 1618 Ben Jonson, then Poet Laureate of England, walked from London to Edinburgh to visit his friend Taylor, the Thames waterman, commonly known as the Water Poet, who at that time was at Leith.

  • The Scots had burnt and plundered Boroughbridge in 1318 under Sir James Douglas, commonly known, on account perhaps of his cruelty, as the "Black Douglas.

  • Scrophulariaceae, commonly known as snapdragon, on account of the peculiarity of the blossoms, which, by pressing between the finger and thumb, may be made to open and shut like a mouth.

  • It may still be traced at various points, and is commonly known as Graham's Dyke.

  • Defn: A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen.

  • Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack, and eelgrass.

  • This butterfly, commonly known to amateurs as the "Red Admiral," and to entomologists as Vanessa Atalanta, had been the occasion of scandal among the entomologists of France and Brittany.

  • I, "you mean that big sphinx moth that is commonly known as the 'death's-head moth.

  • The priest was l'Abbe Sorgue, commonly known as the Black Priest on account of his dark face and swarthy eyebrows.

  • The church is celebrated for the possession of the "Descent from the Cross," a fresco by Ricciarelli, commonly known by the name of Daniel of Volterra, said to be one of the three finest pictures in the world.

  • The first of these (commonly known as Inter cætera) grants to.

  • Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (commonly known as Peter Martyr) was an Italian priest and historian, who was born in 1455.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commonly known" 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:
    always trying; civilian life; commonly applied; commonly believed; commonly call; commonly found; commonly known; commonly made; commonly regarded; commonly said; commonly supposed; commonly termed; commonly used; curious smile; emit bills; few hundred; inductive resistance; love would; many points; personal identity; said grandpapa; sexual relationships; what has been called; what way; whose life; your sister