Thelma
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He now lives in mid-Wales with his wife Thelma.
From BBC
“The science tells us it doesn’t make sense, but they’re ignoring it because they have to come up with something,” said Thelma Waxman, president of the Brentwood Homeowners Assn.,who is working to certify neighborhoods in her area as fire safe.
From Los Angeles Times
Even after the actor moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s to pursue his on-screen career, which took off with a breakout role in “Thelma & Louise” in 1991, he and his mother remained incredibly close.
From MarketWatch
At times, “Mr. Scorsese” feels like a very long, and notably star-studded, bonus features reel, in which the director and longtime friends and collaborators including Thelma Schoonmaker, Robert De Niro, Nicholas Pileggi, Brian De Palma, Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis discuss the evolution of Scorsese’s work and their admiration of it.
From Los Angeles Times
"I try and do a bank robbery and it goes wrong. It's very Thelma and Louise."
From BBC
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