Quayle

[kweyl]

noun

1. James Danforth Dan, born 1947, vice president of the U.S. 1989–93.

Quayle

/ kweɪl /

noun

1. Sir ( John ) Anthony . 1913–89, British actor and theatrical producer: director (1948–56) of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre

Example Sentences

What Quayle missed about “The Candidate” is that when it comes to a Robert Redford movie, truth is never as plain as what your eyes can see.

From Los Angeles Times

Her husband, Mike Pence, who served as Trump’s vice president in his first term and whom insurrectionists chanted about killing during the Jan. 6 effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss, attended, as did former Vice President Dan Quayle and his wife, Marilyn.

From Los Angeles Times

Bush continued his antics later by lightly hitting someone behind him—Dan Quayle?—with a program, while Al Gore looked on, as if Gore of all people hadn’t been terrorized enough by this man.

From Slate

A few months later, Quayle was sworn in as vice-president after his ticket won in a landslide.

From BBC

Recall, from 1988, Dan Quayle and the infamous “You’re no Jack Kennedy” rejoinder, which Democrat Lloyd Bentsen leveled after the youthful Quayle compared himself to the youthful president.

From Los Angeles Times