Goneril
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Nobody cheers for Goneril and Regan as they wreak destruction on their pitiable father.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
Most of those who resurrect her do so to account for the psychology of Goneril, Regan and Cordelia.
From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2021
Like Lear, Cox’s Logan seems to have “ever but slenderly known himself,” as Regan remarks to Goneril about their rash father.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2021
Goneril is a monster; Gargi is a capitalist.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2018
Goneril, rising from the cauldron with dripping hands.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon
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