Samantha
[suh-man-thuh]
- a female given name: from an Aramaic word meaning “listener.”
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Contemporary Examples
The latest novel from Samantha Harvey is truly superb, but left its reviewer at a loss for how to describe it.
Normally I might look to Samantha Power or Madeleine Albright or Hillary Clinton for foreign policy wisdom.
The piece was authored by none other than Samantha Power, who now serves as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Chi, like Samantha (Scarlett Johannson), ends up becoming a transcendent being that threatens her relationship with a human.
The same goes for challengers, like Samantha Nunn in Georgia or Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky.
Historical Examples
Yes”—whined Miss Samantha woefully—“two glasses of buttermilk.
The Bishop of CottontownJohn Trotwood Moore
“Nothin'—oh, I aint got no appetite at all”—whined Miss Samantha.
The Bishop of CottontownJohn Trotwood Moore
They were silent—Miss Samantha making wry faces with her pain.
The Bishop of CottontownJohn Trotwood Moore
Sez he, “Samantha, how I do wish we could git a periouger to go in.”
Samantha at Coney IslandMarietta Holley
Like Samantha Ann Allen, we had “everything good and plenty of it.”
Letters on an Elk HuntElinore Pruitt Stewart