Billy Budd
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Angeleno Rod Gilfry is well known here as a versatile baritone, a Billy Budd who has a flair for lighter repertory and show tunes and the occasional modern work.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2019
Billy Budd is a dog, a cairn terrier belonging to my mother, and it turns out he’s a nervous flier with Hulk strength.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2016
The French director is known for Beau Travail, a loose reworking of Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd, and White Material, about a French coffee farmer working in an African state during a civil war.
From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2015
“Eustace Chisholm and the Works,” about the doomed relationship between a repressed gay man and one of the innocent Billy Budd figures that turn up frequently in Mr. Purdy’s fiction, failed to find an audience.
From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2013
In the few days we had spent outfitting the Beaver—checking the ropes, repairing sails, sealing the deck— he treated me like Billy Budd.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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