How to Use code name in a Sentence

code name

noun

• Every secret agent has a code name.
• The project was called The 355, a nod to the code name of female agents.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• No, the Queen's code name is much (much, much) more low-key than that.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 13 Oct. 2019
• The film's title, Greyhound, refers to the code name of Krause's ship.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 13 July 2020
• That is the code name that Amazon is known to use for its grocery stores.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2023
• The militants had their own code name: Sword of Jerusalem.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2021
• The hero of your book is a Norwegian whose code name was The Mailman.
  — National Geographic, 5 June 2016
• This is the code name given to the arrangements for the aftermath of the queen’s death.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• Project Falcon is the code name for the Wells Fargo office search.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2021
• But the code name used before then — and still, to this day — is Pegasus.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• The code name for the film is Fire House, a nod to the setting of the 1980s films that will be included in the new installment.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2022
• Timber Sycamore was the code name for the CIA effort to arm the rebels, which came into being in late 2013.
  — National Geographic, 31 Mar. 2018
• The Russian soldier with the code name Catcher was ordered to find Mr. Shvets.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• But the service had one key informant — a man given the code name Shaul.
  — Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024
• Facebook declined to share the software tool's code name.
  — Adam Entous, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Sep. 2017
• That was the joke implicit in his code name — the idea that there were at least six more of these jokers running around the world.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2021
• But in House of the Dragon, the nickname appears to be more of a code name to keep her identity secret.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 17 Oct. 2022
• The project's code name is a reference to Uncanny X-Men No.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2018
• The Directorate of Tube Alloys was one of those curious code names the British love.
  — National Geographic, 5 June 2016
• Swan, an activist who asked to use a code name, came back around the same time and saw their belongings strewn across the forest floor from the raid.
  — Hilary Beaumont, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
• The man leading the ritual — code name: Eisen — swung the machete overhead.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• The queen’s ever-changing code name was at one point Shirley Temple, and no wigs were involved.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2020
• All the other marksman teams had taken up code names by then to confuse the Russians.
  — Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
• Yildiz, who went by the code name Raven, has emerged as one of the most important witnesses of preparations for the coup.
  — Carlotta Gall, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
• Granit — that’s his code name — is a righteous ass-kicker.
  — Amos Barshad, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• The festival crew even used a code name, Coyote, while planning Mitchell’s gig.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
• The Cayenne started its life under the code name Project Colorado two decades ago, at a time of massive changes for Porsche's lineup.
  — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 11 Dec. 2020
• The model will be the Cullinan, which had been its internal code name.
  — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 13 Feb. 2018
• Then the boxer called and Jo bestowed another code name.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 30 July 2019
• If there's a surprise drop, the editorial team will usually get a heads up and, in those cases, the team will come up with a code name for the project.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024