Margery
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She and four other female authors—Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Baroness Orczy and Ngaio Marsh—team up and dub themselves the Queens of Crime.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
It was this identification with Derbyshire that led Tutti to write Re-Sisters in 2002, which also focused on another non-conformist woman, the medieval Norfolk mystic Margery Kempe.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025
Hearing it groan, Margery had begged Remi to let her come along.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2024
Cassandra saw the version of Margery who cared, who could be careful.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2024
Dorothy Vaughan might have eventually lobbied to follow Margery Hannah and Dorothy Hoover into a job working directly for an engineering section.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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