Nevil
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Nevil Muncaster, strategic water resources director at Thames Water, said he did not "anticipate the situation will improve any time soon".
From BBC • Jul. 14, 2025
It made Trenberth think of Nevil Shute’s 1957 science fiction novel “On the Beach,” in which a nuclear war wiped out the Northern Hemisphere, forcing survivors to flee to southeast Australia and New Zealand.
From Salon • Jan. 3, 2025
Forty years later, Nevil Maskelyne, a magician and an astronomy enthusiast, filmed a total solar eclipse in North Carolina.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2024
“I can’t imagine that Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil, who wrote this song, had any idea that it would have the legs and perhaps mean more now than when we first did it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2020
“Do you know who compiled that table? Nevil Maskelyne! The royal astronomer of England! You’d be as apt to find a mistake in—well—in Newton’s Principia!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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