Sloan

American  

[slohn] / sloʊn /

noun

1. John, 1871–1951, U.S. painter.

2. a male given name.

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Sloan British  

/ sləʊn /

noun

1. John. 1871–1951, US painter and etcher, a leading member of the group of realistic painters known as the Ash Can School. His pictures of city scenes include McSorley's Bar (1912) and Backyards, Greenwich Village (1914)

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Example Sentences

The ACS Catalysis study was supported by the Sloan Foundation and the Department of Energy.

From Science Daily

“My Years with General Motors” by Alfred P. Sloan has a range of important lessons for the corporate world but one chapter stuck out in particular, “The Copper-Cooled Engine.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The first of the two homes had previously been owned by late restaurateur Jonathan Lewis, while the other was sold by heiress Sloan Lindemann Barnett, daughter of fossil fuel mogul George Lindemann, and her husband, Roger Barnett.

From MarketWatch

“I’m constantly worried about myself with deskilling,” said Anthony Cardillo, a pathologist based in New York City who directs a Memorial Sloan Kettering laboratory specializing in blood samples.

From The Wall Street Journal

Schlossberg was treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York, where her cancer alternated between remission and relapse after several bone-marrow transplants and clinical trials, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal