Example sentences for: olivia

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

  • Holland has expunged much of the melodrama that marked the war-horse dramatization The Heiress (made into a 1949 film with Olivia de Havilland, directed by William Wyler), and has even corrected a problem that irked James, years after publication, when he reread his early novel and declined to revise it for reprinting: that Morris Townsend, Catherine's fortune-hunting suitor, was too much of a one-dimensional lout.

  • Go to a garden store, and you'll find products with delightful names like "Olivia's Cloning Compound," a mix of hormones to dunk on the cut end of a shoot to help it take root.

  • Chief among his many conquests is Olivia, his current girlfriend, a beauty who enthralls him by night in the ramshackle mansion he's never bothered to fix up and disappoints him by day in her modest desire for a career no greater than that of a nurse's aide.

  • 1.126), it would appear that Duke Orsino was not fully aware of what was befalling him when he admitted to Olivia that “I partly know the instrument that screws me.”

  • Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his "family," Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus ça


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