Gary

American  

[gair-ee, gar-ee] / ˈgɛər i, ˈgær i /

noun

1. Elbert Henry, 1846–1927, U.S. financier and lawyer.

2. a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan.

3. a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “spear bearer.”

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Gary British  

/ ˈɡærɪ /

noun

1. a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan: a major world steel producer. Pop: 99 961 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

Everyone has to start somewhere, and for Gary Barlow that somewhere was an unknown social club in north Wales.

From BBC

Gary Goldie said Tehran's retaliation attacks on Gulf states in response to US and Israeli strikes were "concerning" but life was "continuing as normal".

From BBC

District Court Judge R. Gary Klausner disagreed in a ruling Wednesday, finding Seitz and his attorneys had not shown how his 1st Amendment rights had been violated.

From Los Angeles Times

A decade later, I sat in a seminar room at the University of Chicago listening to Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy present their work on the economics of illegal goods.

From The Wall Street Journal

Before John Wayne and Gary Cooper, there were the noble vaqueros of Mexico, myth-makers in their own right.

From Los Angeles Times