How to Use code name in a Sentence

code name

noun
Definition of code namenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • Elsewhere, all the seasickness and disorientation — down to the sound of the bullets and the code names of Omaha Beach sectors — were factually watertight.
    — Tomris Laffly, EW.com, 6 July 2024

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