He always referred to them by name, as if they were people.

Not once, all morning, had he referred to her by name.

From now, refer to it only by its medical name.

During the interview, she never once referred to him by his name.

However, many people who live there still refer to it by its former name.

Jackson also refers to himself by name in several lines.

Rather than refer to her son by his name, she would call him "it".

I could not remember the last time he had referred to Connie by name.

She is the only important political figure in France whom everyone refers to by first name.

She refers to her friends as "my girls" instead of by their first names.