Emmett

[em-it]

noun

1. Daniel Decatur, 1815–1904, U.S. songwriter and minstrel-show performer and producer: composer of “Dixie.”

2. a male given name.

Example Sentences

Miller is averaging 113 yards per game since Jordan and Sanders went down, which, extrapolated over the course of a full season, would tie Nebraska’s Emmett Johnson for best in the Big Ten.

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In fact, just a few years later, in 1955, a fourteen-year-old Chicago resident named Emmett Till, who was visiting his relatives in Mississippi for the summer, was accused of making verbal and physical advances toward a young White woman, Carolyn Bryant.

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By the time the truth came out, Emmett had been dead for fifty-three years and the photographs taken of him in the casket made White America see the brutality it often ignored or denied.

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The Bruins failed to account for Nebraska running back Emmett Johnson, who ran for 129 yards and one touchdown while catching three passes for 103 yards and two more touchdowns.

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Emmett Johnson has already topped 100 yards rushing in five games this season, totaling 1,002 yards and 10 touchdowns on the ground.

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