Phyllis

[ fil-is ]

noun

1. a name used in pastoral literature, as the Eclogues of Vergil, for a country girl or sweetheart.
2. Also Phyliss. a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “green leaf.”

Example Sentences

Because Taylor Energy was set up as a sole proprietorship, its income and losses flowed through to Phyllis’ personal taxes.

From ProPublica

My mother, Phyllis, the fourth of six children, grew up in Linstead, Jamaica, a landlocked hamlet 12 miles north of Spanish Town, a large “second city” to Kingston.

From Outside Online

A spinoff, “Phyllis,” aired on CBS from 1975 to 1977, featuring her as a decidedly ungrieving widow in San Francisco.

From Washington Post

Her friends Phyllis Cunningham, 75, and Eva-Lee Baird, 74, stood with her.

From The Daily Beast

Phyllis, who was a nurse, went down to Mississippi to provide medical care for people like Joan.

From The Daily Beast

The crusty conservative battle-ax Phyllis Schlafly is giving speeches saying that Obama worships government like a god.

From The Daily Beast

Phyllis is a short, stocky, enraged-seeming woman with a high, strident voice and piercing stare.

From The Daily Beast

I nod my head and try to concentrate on what Phyllis is telling me, but my eye keeps wandering across her yard.

From The Daily Beast

Guess Virginia hasnt come out of the bank yet, Phyllis said, looking the length of the street and not seeing the western girl.

From Project Gutenberg

Phyllis reached over, picked up the gun, and leveled it calmly at the bandits.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Wilson handed a small caliber revolver each to Gale and Phyllis.

From Project Gutenberg

Ill never get used to that noise if I stay here a hundred years, declared Phyllis.

From Project Gutenberg

As Gale and Phyllis lay down on their bed of boughs in the tent with Valerie, a coyote howled dismally in the distance.

From Project Gutenberg