Dolores
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “sorrows.”
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How to use Dolores in a sentence
Null spoke of Dolores with great fondness, saying he had first met her when she attended one of his talks in the 1980s.
Frank says that the radio broadcast he and his father listened to ended with no mention of Dolores.
At the hospital, Dolores only grew sicker despite the zinc and Vitamin D and other supplements and remedies she took on the sly.
He and his sister were at least able to be with Dolores as she reached the end on April 30.
At the time, Dolores was working as a dietitian for a women and children’s center affiliated with a Brooklyn hospital.
Rowling is careful, explicit even, to note that this woman was not “the real Dolores Umbridge.”
J.K. Rowling Pens the Greatest Horror Story Ever: Dolores Umbridge Was Real | Kevin Fallon | October 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor so much of the Harry Potter series, Voldemort was the ghost story, but Dolores Umbridge was the actual ghost.
J.K. Rowling Pens the Greatest Horror Story Ever: Dolores Umbridge Was Real | Kevin Fallon | October 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDolores has abundant gripes, late arrivals, and a sluggish pace among them.
Leaky Ceilings, Catcalls, and Uncaged Pythons: 4 Hours on NYC’s Worst Subway | Kevin Zawacki | August 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat love of transforming herself actually makes it fun for Racette to alternate between Mefistofele and Dolores Claiborne.
‘Dolores Claiborne’ Star on Her Sudden New Role | Emily Wilson | September 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDolores Huerta has been arrested 22 times—and badly beaten—for fighting for farmer and immigrant rights.
Hero Grandmother Dolores Huerta Honored With Medal of Freedom | Sandra McElwaine | May 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTGuards were everywhere and peons rode ahead to inform the major-domo, and he came riding like devils to meet Doña Dolores Terain.
The Treasure Trail | Marah Ellis RyanDolores Tristeza held the parrot up so that she might see me.
Jane Journeys On | Ruth Comfort MitchellHe walked quietly into the room, overhearing the words of Dolores.
The Ghost Breaker | Charles GoddardDolores could not understand their low conversation in English—and Afro-Americanese!
The Ghost Breaker | Charles GoddardBut if you would come, you would find friends everywhere, besides Dolores.
North and South | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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