A surname from Irish.
Used in a Sentence
costello
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for costello.
Editorial note
Ah, the lesser seen cousin of Poe's Law: any sufficiently confused exchange on the Internet is indistinguishable from an Abbot and Costello routine.
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Definitions2
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A surname from Irish.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of costello gathered in one view.
A locality in the Barkly Region, Northern Territory, Australia, named after John Costello (pastoralist).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for costello.
noun
A surname from Irish.
noun
A locality in the Barkly Region, Northern Territory, Australia, named after John Costello (pastoralist).
Example sentences
Ah, the lesser seen cousin of Poe's Law: any sufficiently confused exchange on the Internet is indistinguishable from an Abbot and Costello routine.
It's like saying Abbot & Costello or Seinfeld were bad simply because you didn't like them.
But just four years after the supplements began, Professor Costello observed marked improvements among those who moved out of poverty.
Nothing that Dick Costello has done to show me he has any long term vision.
Chief Executive Tom Costello is an ex-IBMer and was on the research faculty at Stanford University, where he got his PhD.
The Fratellis - Costello Music (distortion all the way through the album) 4.
Someone like Eric Costello of Flickr or Glen Murphy of Google Chrome.
Coincidentally Elvis Costello took the inverse path: working as a data entry clerk he decided he wouldn't take it and followed a career in rock.
This has been said a dozen times by Dick Costello himself.
There was a kind of Abbot & Costello routine that went on the first time, when a Taiwanese colleague with limited English reported the problem to me.
Dick Costello [sic] forced out in June 2015.
He's a TV personality in China and is known for his perfect Chinese and his ability to do certain comedic styles, that are difficult even for native Chinese speakers to do (a loose western equivalent might be something like Abbott & Costello Who's On First?
Quote examples
OMG, the famous Abbot and Costello "Who's on First" skit is replayed in that vimeo talk (from NDC) about Monads.
No results found for "abbott and costello explain monads".
If you're a fan of Abbott and Costello, and you believe someone might ask you for your password, try this one: "I always forget, so I wrote it down." A: What's your password?
Seems like a no-brainer to do, considering this analysis: "Bearing that in mind, Randall Akee, an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a collaborator of Professor Costello’s, argues that the supplements actually save money in the long run.
Proper noun examples
Hawke/Keating and the first 2 terms of Howard/Costello were about as good as this country's had so far.
He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
Costello's base is $14k out of a total of ~$8.7 mm).
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use costello in a sentence?
Ah, the lesser seen cousin of Poe's Law: any sufficiently confused exchange on the Internet is indistinguishable from an Abbot and Costello routine.
What does costello mean?
A surname from Irish.
What part of speech is costello?
costello is commonly used as noun.