Jellicoe
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe created the watercourse at the former Cadbury factory at Moreton in the 1950s.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2020
Those seeking shelter were assigned to a specific section of Clapham South, each of which was named after a famous British admiral, including Collingwood, Drake and Jellicoe.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2018
To borrow Emily Nussbaum’s taxonomy, Sally is a hummingbird, a class of female characters, who like Leslie Knope or Enlightened’s Amy Jellicoe are “idealistic feminine dreamers whose personalities are irritants.”
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2018
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
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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