Clarissa
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Clarissa Stayrook drove in the game’s only run in the third inning with a single.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Joyce’s Leopold Bloom and Woolf’s Peter Walsh “are wanderers like Odysseus. Molly Bloom and Clarissa Dalloway are the women to whom Bloom and Peter return, as Odysseus returns to Penelope.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
“We have recently had dinoflagellate blooms up and down the California coast,” Clarissa Anderson, a biological oceanographer at Scripps and director of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System, said last week.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2024
Clarissa Dossie, a cashier at Rise since its opening, said that during the worst months, people would come in, look around and say, "Dang, where the groceries at?"
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2024
If it weren’t for Clarissa, my hospital room wouldn’t have been much different than a prison cell.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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