Saroyan
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“Here’s a chair, and that’s how we were sitting for a month,” Saroyan said, recalling her aching legs.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
I do feel I can “read” that long m — it has a sonic quality — and the Saroyan poem “lighght.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2020
Portis was a poet of the vernacular, in the tradition of Twain, Saroyan or Runyan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2020
William Saroyan, for example, was so offended at being barred from the photo shoot that he never came back to the store, recalled Gotham’s founder, Frances Steloff.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2019
When Liyana was in seventh grade, her class had a story by Saroyan in their textbook.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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