Corliss
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Within the fair’s 200 buildings, they were dazzled by inventions including an enormous Corliss steam engine, the first typing machine featuring a qwerty keyboard and a working model of a steamship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Nearby, Corliss Phillips was getting soaked playing disc golf amid the sprinklers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
The collaboration began when Barbara Bolin, a social worker at Goodwin House Alexandria and a lifelong rider and horse owner, reached out to Corliss Wallingford, the nonprofit equine therapy organization’s executive director.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022
He turned up a description of milky seas on the Web site Science Frontiers, an idiosyncratic catalog of “unusual & unexplained” happenings then maintained by physicist William R. Corliss.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 23, 2022
Only after Corliss had glanced past him toward the door a few times did Sticky realize he was not entirely recovered from his visit to the Waiting Room.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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