Saroyan
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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We both agreed that the novelist William Saroyan is an unappreciated genius who’ll probably never experience a renaissance.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2022
“An old man died near me and then his wife died next,” Valentyna Saroyan, a weary survivor, recalled Tuesday as she toured the darkened basement.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2022
My 22-year-old son, Jake, has outlasted the virus, the heat wave, the blackouts, the smoke and six months of lockdown by reading Dostoyevsky and Saroyan.
From New York Times • Sep. 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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