Used in a Sentence

ames

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ames.

Editorial note

(which sound pretty bad, if the characterization is accurate) Edit: here is a piece that comments on Ames and Sullivan.

Examples13
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ames gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

A number of places in the United States:

noun

A city in Story County, Iowa.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ames.

noun

A surname.

noun

A number of places in the United States:

noun

A city in Story County, Iowa.

noun

A diminutive of the female given name Amy.

Example sentences

1

(which sound pretty bad, if the characterization is accurate) Edit: here is a piece that comments on Ames and Sullivan.

2

Alrich Ames was eventually busted for spending money that the soviets were paying him.

3

The two seem to have worked at the CIA at the same time, except that as per the article Robert Ames was killed in a suicide bombing three later in '76.

4

Here's just the first example I plucked from the Ames website: In this paper, a framework is proposed to enable a flight control system with optimal control allocation to incorporate real-time structural load feedback and structural load constraints.

5

I will smile and feel a bit melancholic sometimes when I note his absence, and cherish the memories we had created together (like singing Monty Python songs at the top of our lungs on the Ames college campus while wearing togas)...

6

Just to be clear, it wasn't the heads of the whole FBI and CIA; it was the heads of their counterintelligence divisions (or maybe their Soviet counterintelligence divisions - I don't know the org charts precisely), Aldrich Ames (CIA) and Robert Hanssen (FBI).

7

The only thing that keeps my ownership safe is a line of text in the git repository under ames.hoon where my public key is stored, generated by an app called:pope and interpreted by a crypto suite that I cannot audit, simply for lack of time and understanding.

Quote examples

1

Prof Ames who resides in North Carolina tried us and says "Now I'm rich many more things are possible"!

2

"If you ask someone on the hiring committee, none of them are going to say they're racially biased," Ames says.

3

" In a classic study, UC Berkeley biochemist Bruce Ames and his colleagues found that “99.99 percent (by weight) of the pesticides in the American diet are chemicals that plants produce to defend themselves.” " This is on the same level of "co2 from trees is a major contributor to global warming", and I wasn't at all surprised to see that the author is at the Hoover Institute.

Proper noun examples

1

There was generally a mood of change at Ames, backed by a great administrator, Pete Worden.

2

That's not a very relevant study, since you (and Ames) are just guessing at the motive.

3

I was somewhat jarred by the mention of Robert Ames' assistance during the '73 crisis, but realized that I was confusing him with Aldrich Ames[1] as a CIA double agent.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ames in a sentence?

(which sound pretty bad, if the characterization is accurate) Edit: here is a piece that comments on Ames and Sullivan.

What does ames mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is ames?

ames is commonly used as noun.