Cinna
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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To the audience at New York's UBS Arena, Lenny Kravitz is probably better known as Cinna from The Hunger Games than Lenny Kravitz from singing and playing the guitar.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2024
In Stratford-on-Avon, I have guffawed at Bottom’s midsummer-night translation into an ass; in Atlanta, I have yawned over “Julius Caesar’s” Cinna the Poet portrayed as a Vietnam veteran.
From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2021
Norman played the small but key role of Cinna the Poet, opposite Welles’ Brutus.
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2021
There is a publicity photo of the Cinna the Poet scene, with Joseph Cotten appearing as one of the jackbooted thugs; Cotten had playfully signed it, “To my greatest admirer, Norman Lloyd.”
From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2015
Cinna comes in with a pretty orange frock patterned with autumn leaves.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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