Babette
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In 1959, Brigitte - after several love affairs - married the actor Jacques Charrier, with whom she starred in Babette Goes To War.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
Gerwig is no less movingly misguided as Babette, who — like her husband, but through more extreme measures — tries to sublimate fears, both rational and irrational, of impending doom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Adam Driver plays Hitler studies professor Jack Gladney, and Greta Gerwig is his wife, Babette, in this dark comedy about an American family after a rail car accident releases chemical waste over their town.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2022
Baumbach wrote and directed the film, which looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of a professor, Jack Gladney, and his fourth wife, Babette.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
My mother introduced me to Deputy Sheriff Babette Burke and her son, Drew.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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