Margery
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She and four other female authors—Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Baroness Orczy and Ngaio Marsh—team up and dub themselves the Queens of Crime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
It was this identification with Derbyshire that led Tutti to write Re-Sisters in 2002, which also focused on another non-conformist woman, the medieval Norfolk mystic Margery Kempe.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
As Margery looked her up and down, Remi tried not to betray herself.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2024
As Remi packed her bags, Margery delivered a parting shot that was nonsensical but somehow devastating: When the big one comes, you won’t even notice it’s happening.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2024
The story turned out to be about a British military officer, George “Beau” Brummel, whose true love, Margery, was pressured into marrying someone else.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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