Shelley

[ shel-ee ]

/ ˈʃɛl i /

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noun

Mary Woll·stone·craft (Godwin)

[wool-stuhn-kraft, -krahft], /ˈwʊl stənˌkræft, -ˌkrɑft/, 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).

Percy Bysshe

[bish], /bɪʃ/, 1792–1822, English poet.

a male or female given name.

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Words nearby Shelley

shell bean, shell company, shellcracker, shelled, sheller, Shelley, Shelleyan, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, shellfire, shellfish, shellfishery

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How to use Shelley in a sentence

Although the novel follows loosely the life of Shelley, the book begins to feel a tad directionless.
Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life|Carole Burns|September 10, 2021|Washington Post
Shelley’s book introduced him in 1818, and the movie “Frankenstein” starring Boris Karloff came out in 1931.
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The second district is an open seat, vacated by Republican Shelley Moore Capito to run for Senate.
The State Where the Right Won the Culture War|Michael Tomasky|October 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There were multiple interactions with Shelley Winters in particular.
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Shelley Long, Cheers Shelley Long left Cheers on a high note after winning awards, in search of a film career.
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Shelley, who had left her apartment and had to wait a month before moving into her new one, delightedly agreed to a long vacation.
The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis|Richard Ben Cramer|January 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Back in Detroit, Shelley called her mother to recount the fight, but she omitted any mention of group sex.
The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis|Richard Ben Cramer|January 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In this respect, if I remember aright, the family of Shelley were particularly distinguished.
East Anglia|J. Ewing Ritchie
Sometimes he attended the week-night entertainments and gave a reading from Shelley or Whittier or some other poet.
Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh|George W. Foote
"'King Lear' may be recognized as the perfect model of the dramatic art of the whole world," says Shelley.
Tolstoy on Shakespeare|Leo Tolstoy
But he was not more Christlike than Wagner when he realised his soul in music; or than Shelley, when he realised his soul in song.
The Soul of Man|Oscar Wilde
He had scarcely arrived at Geneva, when he became intimate with Shelley.
My Recollections of Lord Byron|Teresa Guiccioli

British Dictionary definitions for Shelley

Shelley

/ (ˈʃɛlɪ) /

noun

Mary (Wollstonecraft) (ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft). 1797–1851, British writer; author of Frankenstein (1818); the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe (bɪʃ). 1792–1822, British romantic poet. His works include Queen Mab (1813), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and The Triumph of Life (1824). He wrote an elegy on the death of Keats, Adonais (1821), and shorter lyrics, including the odes "To the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" (both 1820). He was drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Leghorn to La Spezia

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