Example sentences for: nellie

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

  • 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.

  • "Well, sir, when I brung Nellie inter de commissary tent and set her fo' Marse Robert he turned to me right fo' all dem gimmin and he says: 'William, now you have killed Nellie.

  • 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.

  • The student loan agency Nellie Mae says the average college graduate's student-loan debt has reached at least $19,400.

  • 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.


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