Calpurnia
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Calpurnia, tired of holding her tongue, replies, “No matter who you disrespect by doing it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
With Calpurnia I kind of used her to make the anti-white savior argument.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
Here, one imagines the fulfilled dreams of Calpurnia, the indomitable Black housekeeper in Atticus’s Maycomb, Ala., home, a woman of keen insight for whom opportunity was frustratingly denied.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2020
And the story’s most prominent black characters — Calpurnia and Tom Robinson — are allowed more opportunity in the play to voice their frustrations about racial injustice.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2020
And me, Calpurnia, with a name I’d hated all my life, why...why, it was a fine name, it was music, it was poetry.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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