Eleanor

[ el-uh-nawr, -ner ]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Helen.

Example Sentences

Eleanor’s words about the challenges of undoing a mistake were prescient.

From Time

Karrar and his wife have a week-old daughter, Eleanor, and have always assumed they’d have to leave their city neighborhood for the suburbs once they had children in school.

From Washington Post

Anna took to calling her first daughter “Granny” because of Eleanor’s shy, solemn demeanor.

From Washington Post

Whatever its shortcomings, “Eleanor in the Village” is a worthy addition to the library on her life.

From Washington Post

One might even legitimately wonder if FDR ever would have become president were it not for Eleanor’s ongoing and transformative experiences in the Village.

From Washington Post

His next book is called Alice and Eleanor: The Wars of the Roosevelts.

From The Daily Beast

His wife Eleanor was more representative of the activist strain running through the progressive movement.

From The Daily Beast

“I became more of a feminist than I ever thought possible,” Eleanor later wrote.

From The Daily Beast

The popular perception is that Eleanor never got over the betrayal, which Black contests.

From The Daily Beast

[Laughs] Did you have any wild nights out in the city while filming The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby?

From The Daily Beast

And now all were dead save Eleanor, his bright-haired sister, and she—the captive of Iftikhar.

From Project Gutenberg

Then the deed at Cefalu—and that accursed child Eleanor still remains to drive me wild with her moans and her sorrow.

From Project Gutenberg

You were like the little Eleanor whom alone in all the world I ever truly loved.

From Project Gutenberg

"It's your money, but it is my life," Eleanor urged, with a quiver in her voice.

From Project Gutenberg

Eleanor's persistence in recurring to this most distasteful of subjects roused her to fury.

From Project Gutenberg