Clarissa
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“The economic priorities dominate,” said Clarissa Martínez De Castro, vice president of the group’s Latino Vote Initiative.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
It’s been 101 years since Virginia Woolf first published “Mrs Dalloway,” a novel about persnickety party hostess Clarissa Dalloway colliding with her former lovers, one male and one female.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Joyce’s Leopold Bloom and Woolf’s Peter Walsh “are wanderers like Odysseus. Molly Bloom and Clarissa Dalloway are the women to whom Bloom and Peter return, as Odysseus returns to Penelope.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Her sister, Clarissa Cervantes, serves as a city council member in Riverside and her father, Greg Cervantes, is the former mayor of Coachella.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025
“I don’t know. Maybe they’re there, but they’re not. Like, ghosts. Or invisible people,” I said, instantly thinking that sounded dumb, but hoping Clarissa would just think I sounded artsy.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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