Imogene
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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After that came actress-comedian Imogene Coca’s silly, charismatic 1936 screen test for David O. Selznick, followed by Selznick’s home movies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
They had two daughters, Adaline Chinn Johnson and Imogene Chinn Johnson, who went on to marry white men.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
Imogene Burris was a psychiatric nurse technician at a state hospital who taught her children that everyone deserved fair treatment.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
Home-schooled her whole life while helping her parents work at the Renaissance Faire, Imogene heads to public school and gets absorbed into a friend group that seems nice … at first.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
If Imogene could keep it up, I thought, till she got to be civilized, if that ever happened, she could be almost anything she wanted to be in life.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
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