How to use "namesake" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "namesake" in popular movie and book plots

  • Finally, Sandro (Eligio Zamara) is in love with the film's namesake dr Laura Bonetti (Karin Schubert), the fiancée of Prof.  - La dottoressa sotto il lenzuolo
  • The drug characters each act as if they are affected by their own namesake drug.  - Straight Up (film)
  • Abhay takes advantage of the situation & pays the bill but insults kunal saying that he's a father for namesake & the biggest loser.  - Parichay (TV series)
  • Empress Maud gave the title back to the younger namesake son, but she could not grant the lands – a fairly empty gesture.  - The Holy Thief
  • He leaves the other worldly Lyra pregnant and dates the namesake version of her in his own time.  - Trancers 5: Sudden Deth
  • had enrolled, where her namesake is a counselor.  - Koochie Koochie Hota Hai
  • Fantozzi is presented in the guise of Napoleon Bonaparte with his wife, but discovers that his namesake was the real guest of the party.  - Fantozzi 2000 – La clonazione
  • Meanwhile, Pierre organizes a fight between Toni's namesake rooster and one brought in by his gypsy business partners.  - No Fear, No Die
  • Sophie guesses she must be Sofia's namesake and Bill is her father.  - Mamma Mia! (film)
  • Like so many other things" (Charles, played by Stephen Fry, is very much a pastiche of his modern day namesake the Prince of Wales).  - Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
  • Azurik, the protagonist and namesake of the game, is an adept in an order of warriors.  - Azurik: Rise of Perathia
  • Dalloway" - her namesake - because she distracts herself from her own life the way the Woolf character does.  - The Hours (film)
  • Searching for comfort, and accepting his new life alone, Gogol finally reads the stories written by his namesake on the train home.  - The Namesake (film)

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