Janie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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By 2009, she’d completed enough plush produce to start selling at local pop-up markets under the business name Janie XY.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The 97-page petition accuses Janie, Joey and the other siblings Jim, Johnny and Jesse of “devious behavior” for not including Jeanie in discussions to sell the family’s last stakes in the team earlier this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
She said it helped her to identify with her neurodiverse character detective Janie Mallowan in the BBC whodunnit.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
It adds a memorable entry to the American project of ennobling voices of the people—in this case, that of the heroine, Janie Crawford, a freethinking woman driven by what Hurston calls “that oldest human longing—self-revelation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
“Mom brought home a baby animal,” Bat yelled in a rush, trying to be the one to tell Janie, and that way she’d know that he had known about it first.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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