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Example sentences for: nellie

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So, I concluded, when Nellie Griego subliminally translated her Spanish word for fish into English, in the process carrying over the Spanish gender, it was the feminine gender of trucha or its diminutive truchita rather than the masculine gender of pez that she attached to the English word.
"I jes' had to go out and cotch little Nellie.
According to Stupey, similar but less commercial names include Chanesa named after the three children of a railroad man, Charlie, Nellie , and Sarah ; and Edruvera , also named after three children, Edwin, Ruth , and Vera . Three adult sisters, Daisy, Cora , and Nora , were honored at Dacono.
Now, Gates and Appiah published a multicultural dictionary about a year ago, and Gates and Nellie McKay published the Norton Anthology of African American Literature shortly before that.
Nellie had been gwine wid us two years, and I hated fer to lose her.