Allan
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney, Allan Ramsay and others caught Britain’s biggest losers in oils, allowing us to put rubicund faces to inglorious reputations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
"Allan Taylor - The Traveller I found in a record store in Williamsburg, and I love it. Can't find it anywhere online, so feels like a special vinyl in the collection."
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
There were dozens of bids on never-before-published images from Monroe's photoshoots over the years, signed by the famous photographers who took the pictures, including Allan Grant and Milton Greene.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
After Alary deleted AImee, he read a story his friend Matt Phillips had sent him about a man named Allan Brooks, who had suffered his own AI delusions.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
Thanks to the odd exchange with Raven earlier that day, she knew The Gold-Bug was an old story of Edgar Allan Poe’s.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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