Ethel

//ˈɛθɪl//

"Ethel" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Ethel blushed harder, and stopped smiling.

Ethel was crying; the young man threw himself at her feet.

"So, said Ethel in a changed voice, you came only for my father." The young man lowered his head, for these words seemed very unfair to him.

One notices readily, Ethel, that French blood courses in your veins.

Ethel was thinking about something else entirely.

I like Fred and Ethel. More so Fred.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953 for supposedly giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.

Her bearing was grave and modest, and her attire scrupulously plain; but there are cases in which sovereign beauty will assert herself, and Ethel Gray, the newly appointed school-mistress, was more than pretty.

Ethel spent decades programming mainframes.

If it is so false, and base, and hollow, this great world […] why does Ethel Newcome cling to it? Will you be fairer, dear, with any other name than your own?

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Charmian Lyle had given herself her first name at the age of sixteen, upon encountering it in an English novel. Her baptismal name was Ethel. When her husband Walter was extremely angry with her, he called her Ethel. Charmian, she thought, suited her much better. She didn't think she looked, felt, or sounded like Ethel. Nor like her middle name, which she really detested, Edna.

Two of Kennedy’s sons, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Douglas Kennedy, supported the release during Sirhan’s 16th appearance before the California Parole Board. But other family members, including RFK’s widow Ethel, felt Sirhan should remain imprisoned.

[…] that he was of a doughty and ethel stirp. His ayle and eam had both been bellipotent; […]

The violation of an ethel born or noble woman was paid for by a higher murde than that of an un-ethel or common person. The murder of all persons was in like manner paid for by a were or were-geld, nicely adjusted to their relative rank.

"I have come to seek your counsel in your most ethel of ethical capacities. My problem is wholly mechanical."

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