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Example sentences for "now called"

  • The capital of Arioch or Eri-Aku was Larsa, the city of the Sun-god, now called Senkereh.

  • Rising to the north of the waters of Merom, now called Lake HĂ»leh, it flows first into the Lake of Tiberias, and then through a long deep valley into the Dead Sea.

  • They were now near the east end of the north coast of Cuba, and they stood in to a harbour which the Admiral called Santa Catalina, and which is now called Cayo de Moa.

  • His lodging was in a small house in an unimportant street of Valladolid, now called the "Calle de Colon"; the house, .

  • The island, the Cataea of Arrian, now called Ghes or Kenn, is singular among the islands of the Gulf as being wooded and well supplied with fresh water.

  • These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now called Kent; and, although they were a rough people too, they taught the savage Britons some useful arts, and improved that part of the Islands.

  • All night the armies lay encamped before each other, in a part of the country then called Senlac, now called (in remembrance of them) Battle.

  • Eger, by the way is now called Cheb, a guttural Ch which is a difficult sound to begin a word with, but you have got to do it if you wish to be considered up to date.

  • Titles of nobility have been abolished, and he who under the old regime of Austria would style himself Count von Potts and Kettlehausen is now called plain Mr. Potts.

  • They formed a new sect of Independents, now called Congregationalists.

  • Its indentations form two peninsulas: a large one, known under the name of Norway and Sweden, and a lesser one on the southwest, now called Denmark.

  • It is said to have been on the eighth day of the month Kronion, which is now called Hekatombeion, that he came to his own city.

  • This place is now called Velabrum, because during the frequent overflowings of the river, people used there to be ferried over to the market-place; now they call ferrying velatura.

  • The rape of the Sabines took place upon the eighteenth day of the month Sextilis, which is now called August, on which day the feast of the Consualia is kept.

  • From the island of Thera, one of the Sporades, in the Aegean Sea, now called Santorin.

  • It is now called Constantina, from Constantine the Great, who enlarged and restored it when it had fallen into decay.

  • In great good-humour I now called on him, and found him walking about the palace environs with a carbine, looking eagerly for sport, whilst his pages dragged about five half-dead vultures tied in a bundle by their legs to a string.

  • Grant and I now called together on the king to present the rifle, chair, and ammunition, as we could not thank him in words sufficiently for the favour he had done us in granting the road through Unyoro.

  • I now called up the boys, and determined on following the herd down before either skinning the dead cow or following the bull, who I knew could not go far.

  • Irungu, a very fine-looking man of Uganda, now called on me and begged for beads.

  • About two short miles from the town, upon the summit of a pretty high hill, we find the ruins of the antient city Cemenelion, now called Cimia, which was once the metropolis of the Maritime Alps, and the scat of a Roman president.

  • But this is undoubtedly what is now called Monaco; the harbour of which exactly tallies with what Strabo says of the Portus Monaeci-- neque magnas, neque multas capit naves, It holds but a few vessels and those of small burthen.

  • But on this subject, I shall perhaps speak more fully in another letter, after I have seen the Trophaea Augusti, now called Tourbia, and the town of Monaco, which last is about three leagues from Nice.

  • Any gauge less than standard gauge is now called narrow gauge.

  • Nicea (as appears by the 15th letter of this book), a city in Bithynia, now called Iznik.

  • Now called Frascati, Tivoli, and Palestrina, all of them situated in the Campagna di Roma, and at no great distance from Rome.

  • Now called Castelamare, in the Bay of Naples.

  • Caldwell points out, must have been the state which is now called Travancore.

  • In 1411 the King of Malacca himself, now called Peilimisula (Paramisura), came in person to the court of China to render homage.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "now called" 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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