Edith
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Edith Aguirre, who has taught in UCLA’s early childhood education program for 16 years, doesn’t expect it will be hard to find another job given high turnover in the child-care industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
“The House of Mirth,” Terence Davies’ 2000 period drama based on the satirical 1905 novel by Edith Wharton, represented a breakthrough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
In “The House of Mirth,” Edith Wharton’s gut-wrenching Gilded Age tragedy, Lily Bart, beautiful and elegant and poor, has been raised to marry for money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Edith used a diamond ring to coax a guard into letting him escape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
With his wife, Edith, he raised seven whip-smart, buoyant children: Jim, Johnny, Bill, Edie, Betty, Norah, and a little girl whom, with characteristic Pollard whimsy, they called Bubbles.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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