Beatrix
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Like countless diarists before her, including Samuel Pepys, Anaïs Nin, Beatrix Potter and David Sedaris, the woman had kept a record of her days with ink and paper.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
If I were to name it more plainly, I might call it Beatrix Potter weather: damp cuffs, garden gates, the feeling that something is pushing up just beneath the soil.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
“There’s this sense of powerlessness, of not being the captain of your own ship,” said their daughter Beatrix Zilinskas.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025
According to NOS, two other prints in the series, depicting Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Queen Ntombi Tfwala of Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, were abandoned because they did not fit in the vehicle.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024
‘The nun Beatrix didn’t run away. Why, there she is over near the altar, sweeping.’
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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