Marion

[ mar-ee-uhn, mair- ]

noun

1. Francis, the Swamp Fox, 1732?–95, American Revolutionary general.
2. a city in central Ohio.
3. a city in central Indiana.
4. a city in E Iowa.
5. a city in S Illinois.
6. a male or female given name.

Example Sentences

His wife, Marion, is tending to her own secrets, processing a decades-old trauma.

From Time

Marion grew up in the outdoor hub of Salida, Colorado, but swears the site isn’t “some deep-seated, psychoanalytic adolescent resentment coming out.”

From Outside Online

In researching Ours, Marion took a lot of inspiration from John Hultgren’s book Border Walls Gone Green, which explores how anti-immigration values show up more subtly in many environmentalists’ efforts.

From Outside Online

In Iowa, about 85 percent of the original road still exists, and Lincoln Highway purists can see the Seedling Mile, Iowa’s first paved portion, halfway between Marion and Mount Vernon, and a preserved section of brick highway in Woodbine.

From Washington Post

The people photographed at the Marion lynching did not try hide their faces.

From Time

One of the last great rascal pols, Marion Barry left his mark—for good and ill—on Washington, D.C., and the country.

From The Daily Beast

Meanwhile, his grandfather was named Marion—also the birth name of John Wayne.

From The Daily Beast

From H.L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers and published by The Library of America.

From The Daily Beast

Governor Robert Marion La Follette had ordered a peaceful convention—no riots, no stampedes.

From The Daily Beast

Marion Barry, the former four-time mayor of Washington D.C., notorious for being filmed smoking crack, is the archetypal survivor.

From The Daily Beast

Chrome dinettes and plastic furniture are manufactured in plants located at Marion.

From Project Gutenberg

At that moment a loud knocking was heard at the door, and the voice of Marion, one of the maid-servants, was heard outside.

From Project Gutenberg

Marion had lost her freshness and her exquisite ætherial quality; otherwise there was little change in her appearance.

From Project Gutenberg

Marion was enthroned upon the picnic-basket, with much pomp, and her guitar placed in her hand by Claude Moreton.

From Project Gutenberg

This celebrated alchemist lived to be one hundred and thirty years old,—an age which some biographers give to Marion de Lorme.

From Project Gutenberg