Vyvyan
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Victoria Vyvyan, president of the CLA, said: "These fly-tipping figures barely scratch the surface of a crime that's blighting rural communities, with incidents on private land going unrecorded on a mass scale."
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2024
While he dismally languished in Reading Gaol, his once-proud mother died, he was prohibited from seeing his two beloved sons Cyril and Vyvyan, and his brokenhearted wife changed the family name to Holland.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2021
But it could be “tricky to represent something in the abstract,” said Vyvyan Evans, a British linguistics professor, and author of “The Emoji Code.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2019
Along with Ade Edmondson as violent punk Vyvyan, paranoid hippie Neil and the suave and shady Mike, the characters would go on to become household names.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2014
One of Blake's fellow prisoners of war was Captain Vyvyan Holt, the only other captive who understood Russian.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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