Tessie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Newsom’s mother, Tessie Newsom, ended her life in 2002 at age 55 through assisted suicide after a long fight with breast cancer.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
The BBC joined Elaine MacKenzie and her guide dog, Tessie, to see the extent of the pavement parking problem in Edinburgh.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2024
Mr. Lambourne said the appointment had been uncontroversial until his wife, Tessie Lambourne, a native of Kiribati, became the country’s opposition leader in 2020.
From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2022
Elsewhere in New Orleans on the same day Bridges went to school, Gail Etienne, Leona Tate and Tessie Prevost entered the previously all-white McDonogh No. 19 elementary school.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2022
He seemed to have forgiven Tessie for breaking off' their engagement years ago, but it was always there in the air between them, like the talcum powder that sometimes puffed out of his clerical collar.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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