Frances
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Trainer Carl Nafzger famously described Unbridled’s stretch run to 92-year-old owner Frances Genter, whose eyesight was failing.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026
The 35-year-old is running the marathon to support It's Never You, a charity founded by his friends, Ceri and Frances Menai-Davis, after their six-year-old son, Hugh, died from a rare cancer.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026
Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest will reprise their roles as Frances and Jet Owens, the aunts who raised Sally and Gillian.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
He joins Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson and Walter Brennan as the only male actors with three Oscars -- a feat also achieved by Meryl Streep, Ingrid Bergman, Frances McDormand and Katharine Hepburn, who won four.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
“Write something in my autograph book, huh, Frances? So’s I can sell it when you get famous.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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