Wylie

[ wahy-lee ]

noun

1. Elinor Elinor Morton Hoyt, 1885–1928, U.S. poet and novelist.
2. Philip, 1902–71, U.S. novelist and critic.

Example Sentences

Because the position was fully remote, she and her husband bought a 3-bedroom mobile home in Wylie, a lake community about 30 miles northeast of Dallas, in November.

From Time

She loved the affordability of Wylie, where they paid $500 a month, less than half of what they had paid to rent a two-bedroom apartment in North Dallas, and that she could “smell the lake and see the stars.”

From Time

ProPublica reporters visited Reffitt’s family in Wylie, Texas, a Dallas suburb, and interviewed Nicole Reffitt and their two daughters.

From ProPublica

Because he can’t take time off for photo shoots, Wylie has to lie about where he is to a boss who is habitually rude to him.

From Time

But Doughty-Wylie was married, and as long as the war occupied them both neither could see a way out.

From The Daily Beast

She fell in love with Colonel Charles Doughty-Wylie, a soldier with a record of derring-do with appropriate movie star looks.

From The Daily Beast

Wylie and I speak at the Figure Skating in Harlem gala on April 7, an annual event that raises money for the nonprofit.

From The Daily Beast

My agent [Andrew Wylie] suggested calling the book “The Instant Connoisseur.”

From The Daily Beast

Firefighter Thomas Wylie had embarked from their Queens home to Ladder 18 in Manhattan.

From The Daily Beast

If successful, it was to enfilade the Wylie kopjes from that position.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Wylie Dedhead (attempting to insinuate herself between the barriers).

From Project Gutenberg

Think, were you to go and alarm Wylie with the news that I am on my death-bed, he would at once inform the Czar.

From Project Gutenberg

Andrew Wylie shall instruct you to crawl upward, without the slime betraying your path.

From Project Gutenberg

Wylie found great difficulty in crossing Rotundifolia with other species, and the crosses did not thrive under cultivation.

From Project Gutenberg