Sayers
Americannoun
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Dorothy L(eigh), 1893–1957, English novelist, essayist, and dramatist: creator of the Lord Peter Wimsey detectve stories.
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Gale Eugene, 1943–2020, U.S. football player.
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Example Sentences
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Or so Dorothy Sayers claimed in a witty 1935 lecture on the puzzle-plot mysteries that arose during the genre’s golden age in the 1920s and ’30s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
I would definitely invite Dorothy L. Sayers as her life after Lord Peter Wimsey really interests me and I’d love to know how she adjusted to it, having made Peter Wimsey so famous.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025
The outage also demonstrated, wrote Owen Sayers in Computer Weekly, “the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket”.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2024
Sayers Tuzroyluk, Sr., chairman of the Tikigaq Corporation Board of Directors, refused to answer questions about what happened in Point Hope.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2024
Old Joe, surnamed Sayers, was his outdoor male factotum—gardener—though there wasn’t much of a garden—make-himself-generally-useful, and so on.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
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