Cathleen
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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"Parakeet is not a good word round here in Inverness," said local resident Cathleen MacKinnon.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
In 1996, David Keating cast her as Cathleen, the boisterous mother to a sullen teenager played by Jared Leto in “The Last of the High Kings.”
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026
The secretly taped footage “was like looking into the Holocaust,” she told interviewer Cathleen Rountree in 1998.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
Cathleen Kaveny, a Boston College professor who specializes in the relationship of law, religion, and morality, looks back historically and observes, “The Church has never been one big family.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
Other witnesses deposed to the finding of the body: the previous character of the Hogans, and the circumstances attending their apprehension; but the principal witness was Cathleen.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
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