Atwood

[ at-wood ]

noun

1. Margaret (Eleanor), born 1939, Canadian poet and novelist.

Atwood

/ ˈætwʊd /

noun

1. AtwoodMargaret (Eleanor)1939FCanadianWRITING: poetWRITING: novelist Margaret ( Eleanor ) born 1939, Canadian poet and novelist. Her novels include Lady Oracle (1976), The Handmaid's Tale (1986), Alias Grace (1996), the Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin (2000), and Oryx and Crake (2003)

Example Sentences

For each of the three macronutrients – proteins, carbohydrates and fats – Atwood devised a percentage of the calories they contained that would actually be metabolizable.

From No Straight News

Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam are the three novels that comprise Atwood’s trilogy, which takes place before and after an apocalyptic plague.

From Outside Online

What distinguishes Atwood’s dystopia from other fictional corporatocracies is her emphasis on biotech run amok.

From Outside Online

Atwood and her colleagues are still analyzing how much of that carbon dioxide makes it into Earth’s atmosphere.

From Washington Post

One of the rocks hit Krystyn Atwood, a black girl, and another hit Emily Harr, a white girl.

From The Daily Beast

Tattoos with quotes from Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut line her body.

From The Daily Beast

Misty White Sidell speaks to costume designer Colleen Atwood about the changes.

From The Daily Beast

“I was relieved and happy that the reaction was positive, because it is an iconic film in the costume area,” Atwood explains.

From The Daily Beast

Enter Garjan Atwood, a multi-talented digital artist who unveils an unusual new photographic project, in O sense.

From The Daily Beast

The convives on this occasion were merely the admiral himself, Greenly, and Atwood.

From Project Gutenberg

"Sir Wycherly does not attend to his cases," put in Atwood, drily.

From Project Gutenberg

On this hint, Atwood resumed the pen, and the vice-admiral his duties.

From Project Gutenberg

Atwood's machine was the outcome of studies into the relations between force and a body to which force may be applied.

From Project Gutenberg

Your grandfather had a brother, Jemmy Atwood, who kept a china shop up Third street.

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