Cerf
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Cerf was fun and charismatic, a jokester and bon vivant.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Upon winning the court battle, Cerf and Random House cleverly marketed the book with an “elite patina” to a mass audience, Ms. Feldman observes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
He came away impressed from an early trip to the U.S.S.R., where he said he was “the last Cerf in Russia,” but was a vocal opponent of censorship.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
On a snowy night in 1961, Bennett Cerf, one of the founders of the publisher Random House, excused himself from a dinner party to watch his favorite television show.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
"I'm not sore. Senlis is a good place and we can stay at the Grand Cerf and take a hike in the woods and come home."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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