Trumbo
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Marcel Proust wrote in bed; Dalton Trumbo in a bath; Agatha Christie only needed “a steady table and a typewriter.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
On the night of the election, I was with a veteran activist who told me a story about Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted writer.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2025
"Previous observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show evidence for ocean-derived salt in Tara Regio," explained Trumbo.
From Science Daily • Sep. 22, 2023
Her last major role was in “Johnny Got His Gun,” a 1971 antiwar film based on a book by Trumbo, the once-ostracized screenwriter.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2022
Lucy Trumbo Martin screamed at the sound of the first shot, though until that moment she had not known her husband was on the train.
From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine
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