Menes
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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When she overheard her mother on the phone with family members this week, Menes said she wanted nothing more than to tell them to return to Chile.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021
Menes said he thought about getting a lawyer but decided fighting the government would be a waste of time.
From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2016
When Wes Avila was interviewing for a job at Le Comptoir, Gary Menes' temple of vegetable cookery, Menes asked him what his ultimate career goal was.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2015
True, one of the evening’s most winning performers, the frisky juggler and acrobat David Menes, occasionally comes larking onstage and announces, “Konstantin is dead!,” referring, presumably, to the doomed young playwright in “The Seagull.”
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2012
The sacred bull, Nanda, has his altar attached to all the shrines of Iswara, as was that of Menes, or Apis to those of the Egyptian Osiris.
From Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Jennings, Hargrave
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