NAMESAKE in a Sentence

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1. Petya had come rushing out to talk to his namesake about this affair.

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 Meanings and Examples of NAMESAKE
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namesake
 n.  a person with the same name as another
Classic Sentence:
1  And I," said the Templar, filling his goblet, "drink wassail to the fair Rowena; for since her namesake introduced the word into England, has never been one more worthy of such a tribute.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Petya had come rushing out to talk to his namesake about this affair.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence:
1  Indeed for the Zimbabwe press this explains "the saturation coverage on the demise of his namesake", and they have been reminding us that tourism and hunting are "mired in elitism".