Clarissa
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Jonathan Parks-Ramage knows exactly what he’s doing in evoking bourgeoisie Clarissa Dalloway’s routine in the opening section of his new novel, “It’s Not the End of the World.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2025
“This used to be a fun field where the kids can come out and play baseball or kickball,” said Clarissa, a mother of three who declined to give her last name.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024
“We have recently had dinoflagellate blooms up and down the California coast,” Clarissa Anderson, a biological oceanographer at Scripps and director of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System, said last week.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2024
Clarissa laughed, then glanced up at the muted TV.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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