The hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The guard's manner changed with the name-dropping.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

A string of faces, name-dropping at grendel speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf's Children]

She's going to spend the VP debate name-dropping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference

I come here for the name-dropping and false bonhomie.    From Wordnik.com.  [sweepin' the clouds away] Reference

I'd expect nothing less from our name-dropping writers.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Lost' Dueling Analysis: 'The End'] Reference

HOLMES: Well get ready for some major league name-dropping.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2007] Reference

I recognized thrice as many of the name-dropping this time.    From Wordnik.com.  [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference

He's completely boring and prefers name-dropping to lecturing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbia Kvetching] Reference

Think of this as a tasteful, appropriate form of name-dropping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Weissman: A Lesson from Professor Marvel] Reference

I avoid name-dropping in social media for the same reason. reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth] Reference

Oh, I sound like one of those name-dropping diarists who are jerks.    From Wordnik.com.  [anne-jumps Diary Entry] Reference

I have never really understood why name-dropping is so frowned upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey, New York: Nothin' Wrong With a Little Name-Dropping] Reference

By the way, Nawaz Sharif, I'm not name-dropping, called me two days ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2008] Reference

Lots of name-dropping of minor celebrities (what's up, Samantha Ronson?).    From Wordnik.com.  [Riffs: Kanye, Britney and Gaga: By their Twitter feeds ye shall know them] Reference

The Whitman campaign has responded to the attacks with its own name-dropping charges.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOP Rivals Bash California Icon] Reference

You haven't had the benefit of hearing Harvey doing his Elizabethan name-dropping bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [the dirty duck]

I don't get what she's trying to say other than some half-assed game of name-dropping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary: I'll Send Colin Powell Abroad As My Emissary] Reference

A common flub involves name-dropping without knowing how a contact feels about the person.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Network] Reference

We could go on name-dropping for days; there might be 500,000 species here, maybe many more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle: One Way To Preserve The Last Great Places? Endow Research Stations] Reference

Shar didn't seem impressed by the name-dropping, so Nog added, "You've heard of him, right?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Demons Of Air And Darkness]

He can conduct entire conversations in lines from Star Wars while name-dropping sports icons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filming the Unfilmable: Behind the Scenes of the Watchmen Movie] Reference

The celebrity name-dropping continues when it comes to Hollywood chefs to the stars -- Wolfgang Puck.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2002] Reference

The last thing you want from a name-dropping coworker is an account of his latest personal conquests.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Talk To Someone You Can't Stand] Reference

Your comment is not even good old fashioned name-dropping, but implied name-dropping, which is even worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

(When he wasn't casually name-dropping Exelon, Paul Begala was operating from the same script last night on CNN.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Carville: If Hillary Loses Either Texas Or Ohio, "This Thing Is Done"] Reference

But his omission from the list shows that Obama thinks there is no political upside in the US from name-dropping Brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama and Brown] Reference

He stumbled into name-dropping exercises that were meant to boost his national-security credentials but sounded ponderous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail Mix: 'Sparks of Life'] Reference

I wrote that his hobbies included extended bouts of name-dropping and going into rooms to make everyone else feel inferior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering Buckley] Reference

Food professionals agree that the network shows are a bit touchier about name-dropping than local or cable shows tend to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commercially Speaking] Reference

(The name-dropping of designer labels and Manhattan hot spots is also relentless through the longer-than-an-NBA-season 336 pages.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Traveling Violations] Reference