Sayers
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Dorothy L(eigh), 1893–1957, English novelist, essayist, and dramatist: creator of the Lord Peter Wimsey detectve stories.
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Gale Eugene, 1943–2020, U.S. football player.
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Example Sentences
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McDonald’s representatives examined the equipment when visiting the Coke booth, said Kaiser Sayers, a Coca-Cola innovation director.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
Or so Dorothy Sayers claimed in a witty 1935 lecture on the puzzle-plot mysteries that arose during the genre’s golden age in the 1920s and ’30s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Mr Sayers now works full-time in agricultural machinery sales, but he remembers how the accident affected him.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025
Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers are inescapable early loves and ongoing favorites.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2024
He would, we may be sure, have rejoiced to know that many more have visited the tomb of Tom Sayers in Highgate Cemetery than have visited the tomb of George Eliot in the same burial-ground.
From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.
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