Elroy
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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To get to and from his classroom, Elroy jets through a series of air tubes called the “school homing network.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
If that sounds solid if unspectacular, you’d be right: according to the financial-market historians Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, the average return on U.S. equities, dating back to 1900, is 9.7% per year.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025
Chicago, which had scored 20 runs in its previous two games, loaded the bases twice in the first two innings but only scored once on an RBI single by Elroy Jiménez in the first.
From Washington Times • Jul. 1, 2023
Riker instantly agrees on a scheme to hit the road to the Ryton system, like Jake and Elroy.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023
If Elroy was curious about any of this, he was careful never to put it into words.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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