Woodrow

[wood-roh]

noun

1. a male given name.

Example Sentences

Congress repealed the law in 1920, and President Woodrow Wilson pardoned almost everyone convicted under it.

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Only two years before I was born, in 1916, President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson spent Easter at the Greenbrier.

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The U.S. holiday was originally called Armistice Day, because it commemorated the date and time — Nov. 11, 1918, at 11 a.m. — of the signing of the cease-fire that ended World War I. In 1919, on the first anniversary of the armistice, President Woodrow Wilson said that the day would “be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service.”

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Plans for any new construction are supposed to be submitted to the commission for its “comment and advice” according to executive orders issued by William Taft in 1910 and Woodrow Wilson in 1913.

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In the same year he ran for mayor, Hillquit was also the defense lawyer for several left-leaning publications that Woodrow Wilson’s administration tried to ban or shut down.

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