Horatio
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“It was extraordinary to watch his inner strength,” Sokol said of his son in the Horatio Alger biography.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026
When Rylance’s Hamlet “returns to meet Yorick’s skull and Ophelia’s funeral,” he finds “something like unbrooding peace at last,” a description that Horatio might wish to borrow as he reports his friend’s story.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024
Those riots at the Chicago convention led to a disastrous election between Richard Milhous Nixon and Hubert Horatio Humphrey.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2023
Long before Samantha Lotus, there was William Horatio Bates, an ophthalmologist at the turn of the 20th century who developed the so-called Bates method for improving vision.
From Slate • Sep. 30, 2023
Hamlet went to confer with the players, while Horatio approached me.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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