Lucille
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Although officially credited as The Girl, her character was called "Lucille" by one of the prisoners distracted by her car washing.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
My notes on interviews with Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Before she broke out in 1988’s “Beetlejuice,” O’Hara was mainly known for her sidesplitting impressions on “SCTV,” parodying outsized icons such as Lucille Ball, Tammy Faye Bakker and Katharine Hepburn.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026
“A Woman’s Face” tracks Crawford from her 1906 birth in Texas, as Lucille LeSueur, to her youth in Oklahoma and Kansas City as “Billie” Cassin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Jam wasn’t sure how deeply Redemption bought the Lucille line, that there were no more monsters.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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