Dolores

[duh-lawr-is, -lohr-]

noun

1. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “sorrows.”

Example Sentences

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta organized farmworkers in 1962.

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The remains of these invisible dead end up in Dolores Cemetery, Mexico's largest, situated in Chapultepec Forest.

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Each year around 500 people are buried in unmarked graves in Dolores Cemetery.

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Her conviction was eventually overturned thanks to the crusading efforts of lawyer Soledad Deza, a tale chronicled in Dolores Fonzi’s appropriately titled “Belén.”

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The Mexican actress Dolores Del Rio stars, opposite a noble but naïve Ralph Forbes, as a chaste maiden propelled by circumstance into a world she’d have been better off not knowing—with Mr. Horne once more adding to the film’s emotional impact.

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