De Forest
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Yet when De Forest rented a theater in 1923 to demonstrate several sound shorts, studio heads showed no interest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
Wisconsin purchasing agents on March 26 paid $19,799 for 2,100 N95s at an Ace Hardware in De Forest.
From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2020
De Forest has not been entirely invisible over these years but this big show is, even online, irrefutable evidence of his stature.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2020
Artists included in this show at the Parker include figures such as Wallace Berman, Kurt Schwitters, Roy De Forest and Franklin Williams.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2019
I remember the tussle De Forest and I had with my collar and cravat in the morning, and how he stuck pins into my neck, and wrestled mightily with his own elaborate toilet.
From That Mother-in-Law of Mine by Anonymous
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