Example sentences for: clarissa

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

  • Before long, the apartment is awash in Parry's letters and Clarissa has moved into the spare bedroom.

  • Here are some classics: Smollett's novel is Humphry Clinker (1771), not “Humphrey”; Richardson's is Clarissa Harlowe (1748), not “Harlow”; Defoe's is Robinson Crusoe (1719), not “Cruso”; Rider Haggard's is Allan Quatermain (1887), not “Quartermain” or “Quatermaine.”

  • He now slips in and out of lucidity before his despairing, Italian-born wife, Rezia (Amelia Bullmore); like Clarissa, he is haunted by the lack of permanence in all things.

  • The very title of the work is tinged with regret, since its protagonist is presented to us not as lighthearted Clarissa but as the older Dalloway's somewhat shrinking, sickly missus.

  • I want to speak to Clarissa!"


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