Cullen
[kuhl-uh n]
- Coun·tee [koun-tey, -tee] /kaʊnˈteɪ, -ˈti/, 1903–46, U.S. poet.
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Examples from the Web for cullen
Contemporary Examples
“To the extent he was able to refresh any New Hampshire contacts, he would have done that then,” says Cullen.
Cullen is not the first serial killer in the medical profession.
The media dubbed Cullen “the Angel of Death”—a nickname he relished—when he was finally arrested in 2003.
“We may have just broken another record,” Cullen says of the recent heat wave.
Dow is the Cullen Professor at the University of Houston Law Center and the director of litigation at the Texas Defender Service.
Historical Examples
Thady's only answer to this was, "How are you, Father Cullen?"
The Macdermots of BallycloranAnthony Trollope
Didn't Father Cullen say anything to your riverence about it, then?
The Macdermots of BallycloranAnthony Trollope
With Cardinal Cullen on one side and Fenianism on the other, we have no peace.
Lord KilgobbinCharles Lever
"Cullen hasn't made up his mind yet," says Bob, walking off.
"I don't go after for to say that," Cullen said ponderously.
Colonial BornG. Firth Scott
Cullen
- William Douglas, Baron. born 1935, Scottish judge who conducted public inquiries into the Piper Alpha disaster (1990), the Dunblane school shootings (1996), and the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster (1999); led the tribunal which turned down the appeal (2002) of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing
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Word Origin and History for cullen
in some uses it represents an Englishing of Cologne, the city in Germany. As a surname it can be this or from Cullen, Banffshire.
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