Lara

noun

Brian Charles. born 1969,Trinidadian cricketer: scored 11,953 runs in 131 test matches (1990–2006) for the West Indies; holder of records for highest individual score in first-class cricket (501 not out for Warwickshire, 1994) and for highest test innings (400 not out against England, 2004)

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Examples from the Web for lara

Contemporary Examples of lara

Many are responding by saying all this is as absurd as men demanding Lara Croft be suddenly replaced by a male.
Video Games Need More Than Damsels and Dames
Tauriq Moosa
June 18, 2014
Lara Warner from Credit Suisse is an example of how sponsorship works in practice.
Investing in Women
Credit Suisse
December 9, 2013
Lara Logan has been leading the apologies but CBS need to do more than that if they are to salvage the reputation of 60 Minutes.
What ‘60 Minutes’ Must Do About the Benghazi Disaster
Lloyd Grove
November 12, 2013
UPDATE: And just as I pressed publish, I learned that Lara Logan herself has apologized.
CBS and Benghazi: What’s the Larger Relevance?
Michael Tomasky
November 8, 2013
Lara Lor-Van, played by the Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer, is in labor.
‘Man of Steel,’ New Superman Movie Starring Henry Cavill, Falls Flat
Marlow Stern
June 11, 2013

Historical Examples of lara

I, too, am a de Lara, and in my father's absence the head of the house.
Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer
Cyrus Townsend Brady
You will want others; they will come; but Lara has the first key.'
Tancred
Benjamin Disraeli
I shall give you a note to Lara; cultivate him, he is the man you want.
Tancred
Benjamin Disraeli
Lara thoroughly comprehends Palestine and all that pertains to it.
Tancred
Benjamin Disraeli
They made the peasant Lara knock; his own brother opened the door.
Falkland, Complete
Edward Bulwer-Lytton