Sturges

American  

[stur-jis] / ˈstɜr dʒɪs /

noun

1. Preston, 1898–1959, U.S. playwright and screenwriter.

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Example Sentences

Circling back to the 1960 Sturges movie, near the end of the flick a character remarks that the Magnificent Seven gunslingers were “like the wind, blowing over the land and passing on.”

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Sturges adds that it allowed audiences to "really dwell on what that would be like and to create a space where statistics become people with complex characters and stories".

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2024

“They left me alone, they left William Wyler alone, they left Billy Wilder alone, they left John Sturges alone,” Jewison said in 2005.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2023

Karen Sturges was knitting five baby sweaters, one for each grandchild’s future baby, when she was suddenly diagnosed with lymphoma.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

The King consented that another arrangement should be made; the one proposed was, that Sturges Bourne should be Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Herries take the Woods and Forests without a seat in the Cabinet.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry