ALIAS in a Sentence

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For ALIAS, below is one of 7 sentences:
This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALIAS
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alias
 n.  assumed name; another name; name that has been assumed temporarily
Classic Sentence:
1  Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE
2  This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
3  Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, executed Thenardier's order.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
4  Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, and Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards, who had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the case, to ten years in the galleys.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
5  I gave an involuntary half start at hearing the alias: I had forgotten my new name.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  Semper enim ex divinis id obstat, Regem honorificato; & qui potestati resistit, Dei ordinationi resisit: non alias igitur in eum populo potestas est quam si id committat propter quod ipso jure rex esse desinat.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  Since the alias is already defined in our management pack it should work fine.