Christened [verb]

I was baking my own bread months before the pandemic made it trendy, thanks to my decision to christen 2020 the Year of Bread.

They’ve leaned up against a wall in my apartment since September as I impatiently waited for enough snow to christen them, and this month I finally got my chance.

My two daughters, studying high school physics at the time, christened her “Quark.”

You probably haven’t had to christen your own giant panda cub, but there’s a good chance you’ve had a pet you had to choose a name for.

A Star Trek fan since the age of 12, Stamets christened his new house Starship Agarikon—agarikon is another name for Laricifomes officinalis, a medicinal wood-rotting fungus that grows in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Perhaps you remember that when Alila was christened there was a good supply of tuba at the feast.

I have recently found out that she was christened Tabitha—or, anyhow, would have been, if the clergyman had known his job.

The King had his young daughter very magnificently christened by Archbishop Cranmer.

This little girl was christened Amelia, after her mother, who taught and trained her both wisely and well.

There was a private baptism in his library one Sunday afternoon, and she was christened Amy Eudora.