Cheever
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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She’s the eldest child of John Cheever, the 20th-century literary titan whose short-story collections and novels were once enormous bestsellers and habitual prizewinners.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Susan Cheever reads her father’s short stories and reconsiders her memories of him as parent and artist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Ella Cheever Thayer’s 1879 hit novel Wired Love: A Romance in Dots and Dashes suggests that both can be true.
From Slate • May 27, 2024
Each has the narrative power of a John Cheever story, as artist Cary Leibowitz, co-head of the print department at the Phillips auction house, said in a telephone interview.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2023
He purchased an estate in 1752, on Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, of Joshua Cheever, on which he erected what has since been known as the Greenough mansion.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
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