Sentences with phrase «nickname when»

Nissan promised that the 2016 Nissan Maxima lives up to its «4 - Door Sports Car» nickname when it revealed the all - new, eighth - generation sport sedan's design at the recent New York International Auto Show.

I'm calling her Nagance — that was my mom's made up nickname when her and her sister used to pretend to speak Italian.

Bird was my nickname when I was a baby, based after that bird.

Cuomo brushed off Nixon's nickname when asked about it on NY1 last week by saying he doesn't read Glamour magazine and has never met Nixon.

Keep this name as a fun nickname when your child is little but don't commit to putting it on a birth certificate — you'll regret it if you do!

Walker, whose nickname when he was an Expo was Booger, paused at the plate to admire the second of the three homers — a moon shot that landed a few rows short of a homemade sign in the rightfield bleachers that read BOOGERVILLE — and he did a stutter step rounding third on his homer trot.

The account Trump retweeted had a handle of «Il Duce 2016,» a reference to Mussolini's nickname when he ruled World War II - era Italy.

For example, learn how to avoid hurtful nicknames when choosing your child's name.

Not exact matches

For example, one woman's nickname is «Duck Balls,» but they sometimes shorten it to «Ducky» to keep it clean when outsiders are present.

(That was the nickname for the neighborhood, back when it was full of nightclubs and gambling rooms in the 1880s.)

«When your brand starts to get a nickname like «Tar - zhay,» it's like a person,» says Brad Breininger, brand strategist with Toronto - based Zync Agency.

Nicknamed «the planet hunter,» the $ 337 million TESS will deploy into its first orbit just under an hour after launch, when SpaceX's part of the mission will be complete.

He had been part of the food co-op movement — and when he abandoned that to start his own for - profit health food store, a group of his friends became ex-friends and gave him the nickname Darth Vader.

The vast majority of the time Siri properly dictated my requests, struggling the most when I used the nickname «Avs» to refer to NHL team Colorado Avalanche, returning score updates for the Cleveland Cavaliers (aka, the Cavs) instead.

The nickname represents hard work, and Utah lived up to its reputation when 111 companies based there ranked in the top 500 of the 2017 Inc. 5000.

In the 1990s, Mr. Draghi earned the nickname Super Mario when, as the Italian economy neared the brink, he became the acceptable public face of his country to foreign investors.

David Catanese writes in U.S. News & World Report that when President Trump once again derisively nicknamed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) «Pocahontas,» he ripped open an old campaign controversy that «even some Democrats say she mishandled during her 2012 campaign.»

The city was nicknamed the «New Chicago» when it was founded in 1881 but currently only has about 15,000 residents.

(As an aside, the week ended with a Cabinet nomination collapsing when it was alleged that, among other things, the nominee, a chief White House doctor nicknamed «the Candyman,» had handed out prescription drugs with abandon, including, on at least one occasion, an alarmingly large supply of Percocet.)

We knew we wanted his middle name to be Joseph (it was my dad's middle name, and it's mine as well), but we wanted his name to be his own, something that was his and his alone instead of burdening him with the name «Sonny, Jr.» We tend to call him «Kai» as a nickname, but «Malakai Joseph» has a great ring to it when you say it in «angry parent» voice.

I took care of their baby girl, whom I affectionately called «Zu» (a nickname which bears no likeness to her actual name), from the time she was nine months old to when she was two and a half.

When my siblings and I were babies, our parents gave us (ridiculous) nicknames, each with their own backstory.

When he founded this business selling frozen food products to restaurants in 1946, he lent the company his nickname and Pierre Foods was born.

Even when we send the less than stellar flops, no one ever seems to complain — lovingly (and unknowingly) earning his office the nickname «the trough,» where no crumb is left behind.

My children smelled of coconuts when they were infants (because they were always rubbed with coconut oil or eating coconut butter) and were nicknamed coconut babies by my friends and family.

The Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) was nicknamed the «sugar tax» by the media and online when it was announced at the 2016 Budget.

Two years later, when star recruits were taking over, the defense improved to No. 1 and created a nickname: the Land Sharks.

I mean, nicknames are nice, and they're especially cool when your team hasn't been to the postseason for a very long time, which, before this season, Jacksonville hadn't since 2007.

It was Jill who nicknamed Cal crew head coach Dave O'Neill the Coif for his gravity - defying puff of blond hair and did a perfect imitation of the «jiggle - jaw» face he made when exasperated.

Rivera got his «Riverboat Ron» nickname for his gambles on the football field back in 2013, when he made a dramatic shift from being one of the most conservative coaches in the league to consistently going for it on fourth down instead of punting.

Rumour has it that the team got its nickname back in the 1930s when the team had to remove the white lead paint from its cars in order to meet a weight limit.

«It's kind of like when somebody in high school calls you that nickname you don't like.

Roth had injury problems, and his big mouth (dude's nickname was «Braggo») kept teams away from him when he was released.

You would also need to account for the young man's nickname, which he picked up when he wrestled a bear for cash, and make mention of his early days as a brawler and a hobo.

His injury was the major spur behind Policy's off - season signing of fullback Tommy Vardell, a former Stanford star who scored four TDs in an upset of Notre Dame and carried the nickname Touchdown Tommy when he was selected in the first round of the 1992 draft by the Cleveland Browns.

«Uncle» Bob Willits has known Tom since birth and was the one who nicknamed him Flytrap Finnegan when he was eight.

Dawn is the magic hour for turkey hunting in spring, which is the turkey mating season, the time when the male turkey earns his nickname of gobbler.

«When I was told that a Nice player was nicknamed the «African Xavi», I followed him very closely,»

Pepperdine's Waves will make their nickname more apropos in 1972 when they move from seedy South Los Angeles to glamorous Malibu.

Against the New Orleans Saints on Sept. 27, when the song The Power blared through the Louisiana Superdome speakers during a timeout, Jiggle Joints — one of several nicknames Watters has been given by his teammates — began to dance in the huddle.

I have seen arsenal strikers through d years; even Adebayo when we nicknamed him Mr miss it, the all were comfortable on d ball but Giroud?

For Joe Paterno, the defining moment of the 1982 championship season came not in the last seven seconds of the pivotal Nebraska game, when quarterback Todd Blackledge completed a winning touchdown pass to second - string tight end Kirk Bowman, who happened to be a former offensive guard nicknamed Stonehands.

Well, if you want a classically inspired nickname for your team, you might look beyond Troy and Sparta to Kroton, a Greek colony on the instep of the Italian boot that dominated the Olympic Games for 100 years, from 588 to 484 B.C., the period when the Games emerged as the major Panhellenic festival.

Anderson, who at least has a nickname, is so far out of touch with his celebrity that on the rare occasions when he indulges in nightlife he sallies forth to sleepy San Bernardino, not Los Angeles.

Crosby always shines when he plays against whomever gets the nickname «the next Sidney Crosby.»

Years later, when he was working in a Panama City Beach (Fla.) restaurant where everybody had nicknames and sported goofy hats, his manager noticed the lightning bolts on his hat and, having seen his speed on a skimboard, rechristened him Flash.

Immediately the action comes his way, and he's halfway to the $ 500 when his business partner, Bob Jones — they own bingo halls in Texas, hence their nickname, the Bingo Boys — whispers, «He's been doing that trick for years.

Florida Gulf Coast made a stunning run to the Sweet 16 four years ago when their high - flying offense led to the «Dunk City» nickname.

(Except for a weird five year period in the 1930s when they wore thin alternating stripes of dark and light blue, and were presumably nicknamed the Toothpastes.)

It was May 8, on the eve of the series opener, when Barkley entered the Suns» clubhouse, gave the team its new nickname and then engaged shooting guard Dan Majerle in the following dialogue: