Lillian
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Local Transport minister Lillian Greenwood praised Waymo's planned rollout on social media Thursday.
From Barron's
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and Cody’s other circuslike attractions brought audiences across the U.S. and Europe dramatic re-enactments of frontier life, featuring the pony express and stagecoach robberies, feats of skill from sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Lillian Smith, races and rodeo acts, and demonstrations of Native American culture, which even included Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull at one point.
There’s footage of him giving a tour of his home, where he shows off the art collection he started with his late wife, Lillian Miles.
From Salon
Most are in the pages of the school magazine, but the extent of the plagiarism included His Requiem, submitted by D M Thomas of Swansea and published in the Western Mail newspaper on 14 January 1927, which dated from five years before and was a poem by Lillian Gard, first published in the Boy's Own Paper.
From BBC
Lillian Disney, a connoisseur of flowers, would die before the hall was finished, but its hidden rear garden is centered around the “Rose for Lilly” fountain, composed of thousands of broken blue-and-white Delft china pieces.
From Los Angeles Times
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