Loretta

Also Lo·rette

[luh-ret-uh, law-, loh-]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Laura.

Example Sentences

It’s less a song than a preamble, setting the stage for everything that’s to come: an outsider following in the footsteps of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn and the rest of the country outlaws standing up and taking her rightful place.

From Salon

“I love Sinéad so much and I never want the story of Chris saying that to her to overshadow also what she meant to me,” Price told Salon. “. . . she just embodies truth and fearlessness, she’s somebody that I look up to the way that I look up to Patti Smith and the way that I look up to Loretta Lynn.”

From Salon

Loretta Lynch, the commission’s president in 2001 when the changes were proposed, said she remembers the safety staff coming to her and explaining why the rules needed to be strengthened.

From Los Angeles Times

He posted the comment in response to what’s described as a satirical video shared on the platform, in which a male character tells peers they want to be called Loretta and to be a woman.

From Salon

As a teenager, she got her start playing the gun-toting, pot-growing Loretta McCready on “Justified” and Tim Allen’s daughter on “Last Man Standing.”

From Los Angeles Times