Ernest
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As Ernest Hemingway wrote a century ago: One goes bankrupt two ways — gradually, and then suddenly.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Its most famous patron, Ernest Hemingway, sits in statue form alone at the bar in the musty, sweltering darkness.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
She is Eugenie's third child with her husband, Jack Brooksbank, after their sons August Philip Hawke Brooksbank, born in 2021, and Ernest George Ronnie Brooksbank, born in 2023.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“We had a lot of people who wanted to go there and be the next Maxwell Perkins,” says Moldow, referring to the legendary editor who discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Are you the present wife of Ernest Burkhart?”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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