Horatio
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Sid co-created 1960s and ’70s children’s TV shows that featured colorful and quirky characters like Weenie the Genie, Horatio J. HooDoo and Cha-Ka the ape-boy.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
“It was extraordinary to watch his inner strength,” Sokol said of his son in the Horatio Alger biography.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026
Those riots at the Chicago convention led to a disastrous election between Richard Milhous Nixon and Hubert Horatio Humphrey.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2023
Long before Samantha Lotus, there was William Horatio Bates, an ophthalmologist at the turn of the 20th century who developed the so-called Bates method for improving vision.
From Slate • Sep. 30, 2023
Horatio lifted his arms in a gesture of uncertainty.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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