Jellicoe
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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White’s last HBO series was Enlightened, a cult favorite starring Laura Dern as abrasive dreamer Amy Jellicoe, and he’s adept at observing his protagonists with a kind of sympathetic objectivity, their flaws and strengths backlit.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2021
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe created the watercourse at the former Cadbury factory at Moreton in the 1950s.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2020
These are questions that Beatriz — like Amy Jellicoe, the self-help poster girl played by Laura Dern on “Enlightened” — takes incredibly seriously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2017
As Winston Churchill had said, Sir John Jellicoe, the admiral who led the Royal Navy until 1916, was "the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon".
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2014
We were standing at the corner of Jellicoe Avenue and Oxford Road, right in the heart of Johannesburg’s wealthy, white suburbia, and there were no minibuses.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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