Frances

[ fran-sis ]

noun

a female given name: derived from Francis.

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How to use Frances in a sentence

A little later, Frances asked if she could send some food ahead of her.
Inside Frances Haugen's Decision to Take on Facebook | Billy Perrigo/Paris | November 22, 2021 | Time
McCarthy’s Frances, a famous romance novelist, has been catfished out of a huge sum of money and arrives reeling from news that her publisher hates her new book so much, it’s talking about buying out her contract.
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William’s 23-year-old daughter Frances was forced to finish her Georgetown University degree from home last spring.
The 10th president’s last surviving grandson: A bridge to the nation’s complicated past | Gillian Brockell | November 29, 2020 | Washington Post
Frances spent much of the summer and fall working with researchers at the local history center, plus historians at William & Mary and the University of Virginia.
The 10th president’s last surviving grandson: A bridge to the nation’s complicated past | Gillian Brockell | November 29, 2020 | Washington Post
It was one of the first times I had really hung out with them, and somehow the character of Frances was able to shine through because they were holding a space for it.
At home, forever and ever, with Dean & Britta | Nate Rogers | November 6, 2020 | Washington Post

And so it is that Frances and Lilian fall in love, and, from that, (very thrillingly written), all hell breaks loose.
Sarah Waters: Queen of the Tortured Lesbian Romance | Tim Teeman | September 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
I wanted Frances to be completely confident about her sexuality.
Sarah Waters: Queen of the Tortured Lesbian Romance | Tim Teeman | September 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In the novel, the moral situation Frances ends up in is dreadful.
Sarah Waters: Queen of the Tortured Lesbian Romance | Tim Teeman | September 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Mr. Kallison was “a strong but also a very gentle man,” Frances said.
‘The Harness Maker’s Dream:’ The Unlikely Ranch King of Texas | Nick Kotz | September 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates and Sarah Paulson and Frances Conroy.
Joan Allen on ‘The Killing’ Finale and That Mother of a Twist | Kevin Fallon | August 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Sister Ann Frances was inclined to defend Hilda's imperfect acquaintance with primary arithmetic.
Hilda | Sarah Jeanette Duncan
No, perhaps,' as her eyes fell on the still weeping Frances, 'it would be better to wait a little.
Robin Redbreast | Mary Louisa Molesworth
Jacinth and Frances Mildmay are walking home from school, carrying their little bag of books.
Robin Redbreast | Mary Louisa Molesworth
Lady Myrtle smiled, and gave a little pat to Frances's shining tangle of curly hair.
Robin Redbreast | Mary Louisa Molesworth
She was a sort of a saint, and I'm quite sure that now she's'——But here Frances burst into tears.
Robin Redbreast | Mary Louisa Molesworth

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