Dolores
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “sorrows.”
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How to use Dolores in a sentence
Rowling is careful, explicit even, to note that this woman was not “the real Dolores Umbridge.”
J.K. Rowling Pens the Greatest Horror Story Ever: Dolores Umbridge Was Real | Kevin Fallon | October 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor so much of the Harry Potter series, Voldemort was the ghost story, but Dolores Umbridge was the actual ghost.
J.K. Rowling Pens the Greatest Horror Story Ever: Dolores Umbridge Was Real | Kevin Fallon | October 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDolores has abundant gripes, late arrivals, and a sluggish pace among them.
Leaky Ceilings, Catcalls, and Uncaged Pythons: 4 Hours on NYC’s Worst Subway | Kevin Zawacki | August 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat love of transforming herself actually makes it fun for Racette to alternate between Mefistofele and Dolores Claiborne.
‘Dolores Claiborne’ Star on Her Sudden New Role | Emily Wilson | September 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDolores Huerta has been arrested 22 times—and badly beaten—for fighting for farmer and immigrant rights.
Hero Grandmother Dolores Huerta Honored With Medal of Freedom | Sandra McElwaine | May 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Guards were everywhere and peons rode ahead to inform the major-domo, and he came riding like devils to meet Doña Dolores Terain.
The Treasure Trail | Marah Ellis RyanDolores Tristeza held the parrot up so that she might see me.
Jane Journeys On | Ruth Comfort MitchellHe walked quietly into the room, overhearing the words of Dolores.
The Ghost Breaker | Charles GoddardDolores could not understand their low conversation in English—and Afro-Americanese!
The Ghost Breaker | Charles GoddardBut if you would come, you would find friends everywhere, besides Dolores.
North and South | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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