Marion

[ mar-ee-uhn, mair- ]

noun

1. Francis, the Swamp Fox, 1732?–95, American Revolutionary general.
2. a city in central Ohio.
3. a city in central Indiana.
4. a city in E Iowa.
5. a city in S Illinois.
6. a male or female given name.

Example Sentences

One of the last great rascal pols, Marion Barry left his mark—for good and ill—on Washington, D.C., and the country.

From The Daily Beast

Meanwhile, his grandfather was named Marion—also the birth name of John Wayne.

From The Daily Beast

From H.L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers and published by The Library of America.

From The Daily Beast

Governor Robert Marion La Follette had ordered a peaceful convention—no riots, no stampedes.

From The Daily Beast

Marion Barry, the former four-time mayor of Washington D.C., notorious for being filmed smoking crack, is the archetypal survivor.

From The Daily Beast

Chrome dinettes and plastic furniture are manufactured in plants located at Marion.

From Project Gutenberg

At that moment a loud knocking was heard at the door, and the voice of Marion, one of the maid-servants, was heard outside.

From Project Gutenberg

Marion had lost her freshness and her exquisite ætherial quality; otherwise there was little change in her appearance.

From Project Gutenberg

Marion was enthroned upon the picnic-basket, with much pomp, and her guitar placed in her hand by Claude Moreton.

From Project Gutenberg

This celebrated alchemist lived to be one hundred and thirty years old,—an age which some biographers give to Marion de Lorme.

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