Jenkins

/ ˈdʒɛŋkɪnz /

noun

1. Roy ( Harris ), Baron Jenkins of Hillhead. 1920–2003, British politician and author; Labour home secretary (1965–67, 1974–76) and chancellor of the exchequer (1967–70); president of the European Commission (1977–80); cofounder of the Social Democratic Party (1981); leader of party (1982–83); Chancellor of Oxford University (1987–2003)

Example Sentences

Wales had an inspired second-half start with lock Dafydd Jenkins bounding around the field latching onto possession.

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Long before Jane Austen became a global phenomenon, Elizabeth Jenkins wrote the first literary biography of the novelist.

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Born in 1905, Jenkins inhabited a traditional unsentimental culture Austen would have recognized.

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Jenkins aims to show how the novelist thought and how she arranged her daily life.

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The novels will therefore be free from what Jenkins calls “the accretions of decay”—their characters meet “not in time, but space.”

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