How to Use code name in a Sentence

code name

noun
  • Every secret agent has a code name.
  • No, the Queen's code name is much (much, much) more low-key than that.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 13 Oct. 2019
  • That is the code name that Amazon is known to use for its grocery stores.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2023
  • The project was called The 355, a nod to the code name of female agents.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • But the code name used before then — and still, to this day — is Pegasus.
    — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The film's title, Greyhound, refers to the code name of Krause's ship.
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 13 July 2020
  • Some are willing to be identified by one name only, a code name or a nickname.
    — WSJ, 15 July 2022
  • As the use of a code name implies, TI wasn’t yet ready to go public with the project.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2016
  • 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
  • This is the code name given to the arrangements for the aftermath of the queen’s death.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Or was that just a code name in the same way that Greenbrier was for El Camino?
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Others heard that the code name came from her propensity to hide scraps of information in her bra.
    — oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2021
  • All the other marksman teams had taken up code names by then to confuse the Russians.
    — Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
  • The hero of your book is a Norwegian whose code name was The Mailman.
    — National Geographic, 5 June 2016
  • Project Falcon is the code name for the Wells Fargo office search.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The model will be the Cullinan, which had been its internal code name.
    — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 13 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • There was a top-secret code name on the sides Ruth Bradley was sent to prepare for an audition.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The festival crew even used a code name, Coyote, while planning Mitchell’s gig.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 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
  • To work on the ceremony outfits, the teams used code names so the performers would not be revealed.
    — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Many use a handle or code name out of fear of government retaliation.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Gordon decided to refer to Toek Tik only by a code name.
    — Matthew Campbell, Bloomberg, 22 May 2026
  • Rawhide was Reagan's Secret Service code name.
    — Katrina Kaufman, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The book takes its title from Cheney’s Secret Service code name.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Nadia for some reason was always my code name for myself, after Nadia Comăneci.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Gold landed his first gig in 2018, at 57, on a movie shooting under the code name Romeo.
    — Lane Brown, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2025

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