surname Examples

[ˈsɜː(ɹ)neɪm]

Examples of surname in a Sentence

Examples of surname
1. He had the same surname as me, but we were unrelated.
2. A woman joins her husbands patrigroup at marriage; she acquires her husbands surname and andronym, and is treated as the bride of the patrigroup in village usage.
3. The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.
4. The butt of the mickey-taking was Ed's surname.
5. As secretary a young man with a “mobile identity” since his anagraphic data such as his second surname will change in relation to the linguistic decrees of the birthplace.
Examples of surnames
1. Guillermina Jasso, a sociology professor at New York University , said Angel was “evocative of the old converso practice of taking on very Christian surnames as a way of survival in a suspicious environment.”
2. It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames.