Enola
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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It has been a location for film and television productions including Enola Holmes, Howards End, Vanity Fair and Ghosts, where the building was renamed Button House.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025
The name was not a reference to homosexuality, but was given to the B-29 bomber by the pilot in honor of his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2025
Seventy years earlier, the Enola Gay — the B-29 super fortress that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan — was built inside these walls.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
Despite the cloudiness of the crystal caused by the blast, the watch’s hands remain halted at 8:15 AM — the moment when the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024
The Enola Gay dropped its payload, the uranium bomb christened Little Boy.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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