How to Use name names in a Sentence

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• Kerr didn’t name names, but that’s about as pointed as a coach can be.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2024
• Reps for the agency declined to name names.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 Dec. 2025
• The people who know are the makeup artists, and none of the good ones name names.
  — Lauren Graham, Time, 4 Nov. 2022
• Many candidates sprang to mind, but Poster wouldn’t name names.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• When being tortured, name names.
  — Keith McNally, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 2026
• Avenatti pressed them to name names about who’d assigned their work.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2022
• Dunkelman didn't want to name names yet but thinks some candidates will emerge in the next few days.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 30 Nov. 2020
• And Eddie Huang is not afraid to name names on either side of that ledger.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2024
• Pressed on who should replace Schumer, Moulton wouldn’t name names.
  — Juliegrace Brufke, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
• When the interviewer asked her where the recipes had come from, Stewart didn’t name names.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• But changing the volume doesn't change votes -- and, tellingly, the president still didn't name names.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2022
• Lukather doesn’t name names in regards to this almost-litigation.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2024
• Others have been supportive and helpful in their own way, but Hammer didn’t want to name names.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 19 July 2024
• Who the song is about, as Swift didn't name names and has publicly feuded with several people over the years.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 21 Oct. 2022
• Hurdle didn't name names but said one of his players became spooked when a TV in his room turned on twice in one night.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2022
• Google’s invite doesn’t name names, but the imagery clearly shows a new Pixel phone that looks a whole lot like last year’s phone.
  — ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026
• Especially since Ashley did not name names.
  — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
• Cyrus doesn't name names, but fans didn't take long to speculate whether the song is about her ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 Mar. 2023
• With the formal proposal process months away, Trost and Tsukamoto declined to name names.
  — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• What informed that decision to actually name names in the story?
  — Katie Drummond, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2025
• Taruc didn’t name names, but there are several people floated for the EPA’s top job that could fit that bill.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 2 Dec. 2020
• Murphy did not name names and Rylov, who was sitting next to him during the press conference, tried to paper the remark over.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2021
• Several Eternals, not to name names, aren’t exactly superheroic in their physiques.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• McGuire again declined to name names, but brought dozens of pastries with him from a Rice Street bakery to illustrate the point.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
• Enter Email Sign Up Kohrs declined to name names or say which laws the jurors believed had been broken.
  — Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• The agency did not name names, but Amazon, Facebook, and Google were widely considered to be on the list.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 17 June 2020
• Women now file harassment cases more often and name names, not only in the old whisper networks but also in the news and social media.
  — Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
• What’s needed is for leaders to name names and demand concrete steps, at least as long as our political leaders remain missing in action.
  — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
• When he was asked why Indiana men’s basketball has failed to reach its potential, Dane Fife wasn’t afraid to name names.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2021
• Later the blind item began to look quaint in the face of brassier players, like TMZ, that were unafraid to name names and go for the jugular.
  — Michael Musto, Town & Country, 25 Feb. 2021