Ernest

[ur-nist]

noun

1. a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”

Example Sentences

Ernest Hemingway’s war wound, incurred while serving as a teenager with the Red Cross on the Italian-Austrian front in July 1918, was the most important event in his life.

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Discovery Point’s centerpiece, the RRS Discovery, was launched in 1901, decades after “Frankenstein,” but I still loved climbing below deck to see the bunkrooms once occupied by the explorers Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott.

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Jonathan Ernest, an assistant professor of economics at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, said tariffs on some of those imports put them at a disadvantage to competitors in Europe, meaning that in some cases, “it might be cheaper to import the chocolate bars from other countries that didn’t have those import costs.”

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Case Western’s Ernest says some spending will likely continue because “it’s hard for people to remember how much they paid for this giant bag of candy last year,” and they usually throw it in the cart along with their other groceries.

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Ernest expects that people will still buy candy for Halloween even if it’s pricier.

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