Evan

[ ev-uhn ]

noun

1. a male given name, Welsh form of John.

Example Sentences

“It was really soul-touching talking to them because we really got to understand what they were thinking and their idea of what they wanted,” Evan said.

From Washington Post

My son, Evan, an undergraduate at Harvard, was sitting next to me and squeezed my knee hard, reflecting the tension he felt with me and the rest of the room.

From Time

In the first episode of the new Netflix reality series Marriage or Mortgage, engaged couple Liz and Evan are torn about their future.

From Time

I remember Seth Rogen was back with Judd and I, like, “My friend Evan and I, we wrote this script about two guys going to buy beer.”

From Washington Post

So Evan, when I lived in Moscow 15 years ago, people were already using Yandex Search and Yandex Maps and Yandex Translate, but it seems to have become way, way bigger since then.

From MIT Technology Review

Indeed, some critics have suggested that Evan was misdiagnosed to begin with.

From The Daily Beast

Evan, the son she shares with her first husband, actor-director John Asher, is now 12 and doing okay.

From The Daily Beast

SURUÇ, Turkey—He gazes at the photograph of his daughter Evan on his cellphone as he offers to let me look.

From The Daily Beast

Evan Marriott was no prince either (theoretically speaking), but he at least had some degree of onscreen charisma.

From The Daily Beast

Evan Bayh and Mark Warner, both of whom seriously considered presidential bids in 2008, backed off.

From The Daily Beast

Evan was not the first man whom I had known to be driven into evil ways by misfortune and powerful enemies.

From Project Gutenberg

I had listened for some sound from Howel and Evan, but since the footsteps passed up the glen I had heard none until this moment.

From Project Gutenberg

Then he would hear more, and when it came to the way in which Evan had beguiled the Welsh servant he laughed.

From Project Gutenberg

Now we thought that on the morrow we would go with but half a dozen men to the valley, if that would seem good to Evan.

From Project Gutenberg

In an hour we were riding across the hills with Evan, for whom we had brought a horse, and there were fifty men with us.

From Project Gutenberg