Frayn
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“Your weight is like your heartbeat, in the sense that you might have a resting heartbeat, like 65 beats a minute,” Frayn said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022
Like Frayn’s madcap “Noises Off,” “The Copenhagen Papers” — written by Frayn and David Burke, who played the Nobel laureate Niels Bohr in the original London cast of “Copenhagen” — is a backstage farce.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020
Mr Frayn said he has seven grandchildren and does not want to see their lives "blighted or cut short" by climate change.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2019
Berg’s spying activities bring us authors Thomas Powers and David Ignatius as well as playwright Michael Frayn, whose “Copenhagen” covers related territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2019
Frayn suggests that indeterminacy would be a better word for the principle and indeterminability would be better still.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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