Woolf

[ woolf ]

noun

1. Virginia Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf, 1882–1941, English novelist, essayist, and critic.

Woolf

/ wʊlf /

noun

1. WoolfLeonard Sidney18801969MEnglishWRITING: publisherPOLITICS: political writer Leonard Sidney. 1880–1969, English publisher and political writer
2. WoolfVirginia18821941FEnglishWRITING: novelistWRITING: critic his wife, Virginia . 1882–1941, English novelist and critic. Her novels, which include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), and Between the Acts (1941), employ such techniques as the interior monologue and stream of consciousness

Example Sentences

That same trip would have cost about $12,000 to $15,000 pre-pandemic, Woolf says.

From Time

Virginia Woolf loved Wuthering Heights and considered Emily Brontë superior to her sister Charlotte.

From The Daily Beast

Fans of Virginia Woolf may enjoy the following list of books written by her less famous female contemporaries.

From The Daily Beast

“And there is definitely a bit of Susan in this [with] Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf,” she said.

From The Daily Beast

That luxury store had been founded years earlier by Herbert Woolf, a relative of the British writers Leonard and Virginia.

From The Daily Beast

Emma Woolf's The Ministry of Thin is available from Soft Skull Press.

From The Daily Beast

This, added to Woolf's sarcastic manner of speech, roused Trevithick's anger.

From Project Gutenberg

From the date of Woolf's patent in 1804, his pay from Trevithick ceased, and with it their friendship.

From Project Gutenberg

Arthur Woolf shortly after that time erected his double-cylinder engines in Cornwall.

From Project Gutenberg

Oats, Captain Trevithick's head boiler-maker, was constructing the boilers; Woolf came into the yard, and examined them.

From Project Gutenberg

The Woolf reversing gear employs but one eccentric, to the strap of which is cast an arm having a block pivoted at its end.

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