Avis

[ ey-vis ]

noun

1. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “bird.”

Example Sentences

Avis, Budget, Enterprise, and Hertz, as well as Turo and Sixt, offer pickup truck rentals at select locations.

From Outside Online

Hyatt isn’t going to invent Airbnb, or Avis is not going to invent Uber, and Lockheed and Boeing aren’t going to invent SpaceX and Rocket Lab.

From Freakonomics

While chief financial officer Brian Choi said Avis has kept the plans mum for competitive reasons, he added the company was working with its partners on a plan to adopt EVs at scale.

From Quartz

But as the old Avis ad goes, as No. 2, Oklahoma (with a solid 111 kills) tries harder.

From The Daily Beast

The Goldfinch proves Tartt to be a rara avis; her own species, willingly chained to her demanding muse.

From The Daily Beast

Soon Westin, Expedia, Hotels.com, and Avis asked to be removed from CGBG.

From The Daily Beast

Microsoft-Yahoo becomes a genuine Pepsi to Google's Coke, Burger King to their McDonalds, Avis to their Hertz.

From The Daily Beast

He is that rara avis, the politician who writes his own books.

From The Daily Beast

En cette disette on eut avis de quelques racines que les Sauvages mangent au besoin, lesquelles sont bonnes comme Truffes.

From Project Gutenberg

A railway general manager in Ireland was in those days, strange to say, something of a rara avis.

From Project Gutenberg

"Maggie Woodhall got several stamps from Mexico," said Avis.

From Project Gutenberg

"It was all Cissie's fault that we lost our collections," said Avis.

From Project Gutenberg

"I wish she didn't take arithmetic, at any rate," groaned Avis.

From Project Gutenberg