What is "known as"

Usage examples of "known as".

I thought perhaps you might be members of that lowly section of the university known as the Sheffield Scientific School.

You are also known as Charles Willis, and under that name you are wanted for two murders in Nebraska.

He had a kind of nasty, pleased grin that reminded Richards of a half-wit he had known as a boy.

Among the riff-raff rank and file of the shadow executives it's known as the clammy handshake and we call it that to make fun of it because it scares us to death.

Since the rendezvous with the executive in Bucharest was set up, a great deal of raw intelligence has been coming in for analysis, and I should tell you that if we'd known as much as we do now about Zymyanin, we wouldn't have left it to a minor cell to find out what information he has for us.

It was two years since my last refresher at the house in Norfolk known as the Box of Squibs, but good habits were still operative.

Every school-child knows the legend of the labyrinth of Knossos, built to imprison the monstrous half-man half-bull known as the Minotaur, who fed on young men and maidens offered as tribute by the Greek cities that had been conquered by Crete.

The diamond known as the Sun of Ceylon and the Ellendorf emerald were the most famous of the great gemstones Daniel Mignot had handled.

Here it is: 'That property known as Springers' Grove, bounded by hmmm, hmmmm, purchased by him from the estate of Mrs.

The Pelagic was destroyed by a particular type of smart missile known as a Seeker.

Sir Eric Banyon, the Queen's Knight, known as Silverflute wherever soldiers of fortune gathered together, strode manfully through the thronging crowd, determined to leave the memory of his disgrace at the hands of the foul Frenchman Black Levoisier behind him as surely as he had left the dastardly minions of his Great Enemy in his dust.