Vonnegut
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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He belonged to a fraternity—half cult, half mainstream—that extended from Richard Brautigan to Thomas Pynchon, with Kurt Vonnegut in between.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
The Vonnegut museum’s founder and CEO, Julia Whitehead, sent an email following Wakefield’s death to the facility’s supporters, according to the news outlet.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024
Weyes Blood is - to quote US author Kurt Vonnegut - unstuck in time.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023
As the late, great American novelist Kurt Vonnegut would have said, about this and about his currently banned books: "So it goes."
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2023
I'd looted the Vonnegut from a cadre of Oviraptor clansmen who had foolishly attempted to hijack my X-wing while I was cruising through a large group of worlds in Sector Eleven known as the Whedonverse.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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