Silas
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Frenchmen Silas Despréaux and Damien Guerot will also receive bravery awards after they armed themselves with metal bollards and tried to stop Cauchi.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
Silas scored the winner as Mainz kept up a stunning turnaround with a 2-1 victory at RB Leipzig.
From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026
But when he discovers that the top-floor apartment he and his fiancée are moving into in Cambridge, Mass., is above the home of Silas Hale, he is given some much-needed impetus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
For Silas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and the New Yorker’s fiction editor at large.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
Silas has the kind of freckles that make you want to connect the dots to form constellations and dragons and things.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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