Cleo

American  

[klee-oh] / ˈkli oʊ /

noun

1. a female given name.

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Example Sentences

Cleo Hearn, a cowboy who helped organize the event, said the children who showed up to watch the rodeo in New York pushed his career in a new direction.

From The Wall Street Journal

Born in Seminole, Okla., on May 3, 1939, Cleo Lavorde Hearn wanted to be a cowboy since he was 5, but after he saw a Black cowboy at a rodeo for the first time when he was 9, he decided he wanted to be a rodeo cowboy.

From The Wall Street Journal

One voice, however, runs through the book, and rightly so: It’s Cleo who opens the book, and Lippman weaves her beyond-the-grave narrative throughout the slow-burning story, reminding us that though Maddie might be fighting to solve the mystery of Cleo, the story of this body, this death, doesn’t belong to the upstart reporter but to Cleo herself.

From Salon

“Alive, I was Cleo Sherwood,” she tells us.

From Salon

Immediately, I stole that and I gave it to the character of Little Man, Cleo’s son.

From Salon