Willa

[wil-uh]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Wilhelmina.

Example Sentences

It was only after the president of Bennett College, Dr. Willa B. Player, went public about the students’ arrests and the federal government stepped in that the students were released.

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“Voice of Hind Rajab” is being released by relatively new player Willa, while both “Palestine 36” and “All That’s Left of You” are set for release by Watermelon Pictures, traditionally a production entity.

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Native geniuses such as Robert Frost and Willa Cather were emergent, but many young American writers looked at their country’s cultural vacuum and decided that the fastest route to developing a national literature went through Europe.

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Anderson tracks the group through a few more organized missions before things go left, leaving Perfidia in government custody and Bob fleeing with their infant daughter, Willa.

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Lockjaw’s membership with his white supremacist group hinges on his ability to finish his work with the French 75, which means that both Willa and Bob are shoved back into danger, just when things seemed like they might be calming down a bit.

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