Example sentences for: adrienne

How can you use “adrienne” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "We are here for people who have no place to turn," Adrienne Worthy, executive director for the agency, said Tuesday. "

  • Adrienne Worthy, executive director of Legal Aid, said her agency will receive $400,000 less in federal funds in 2003, because the 2000 Census found 30,000 fewer poor people in West Virginia.

  • Tillie Olsen identifies silent periods when women are diverted from their work by needs of their families; Spender talks of “silence upon silence” that has kept women's experience from being encoded; Adrienne Rich, in On Lies, Secrets and Silences , sees women's struggle for self-determination “muffled or silenced over and over”; most recently, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar chart women authors' apparent alienation from language, their frequent use of pseudonyms an attempt at renaming or, really, naming themselves.

  • Adrienne Lehrer's “Wine Vocabularly and Wine Description” [XVIII, 3] reminded me of a bogus word used by the distinguished British oenophile N. Kenne Grant, Chevalier et Baron du Vin.

  • Marilyn McNamara (New Hampshire) and Adrienne Worthy (West Virginia) facilitated this discussion.


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