Emily

or Em·i·lie

[ em-uh-lee ]

noun

1. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “industrious.”

Example Sentences

Charles and Emily love one another without being exactly close.

From Los Angeles Times

Emily is skeptical of the whole arrangement — “You know, reading a bunch of Sue Grafton novels doesn’t make you a detective,” she tells her father — but it will also, as it bumps along, bring them closer together.

From Los Angeles Times

They ended up spending about $550 to create the six large arrangements that would line the wedding aisle and were later moved to the reception dinner table, “but they only used about $350 worth of the flowers,” Sarah Marriott, Emily’s sister and maid of honor, reported the following week, after the wedding couple had left for their honeymoon.

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The six large floral arrangements that Emily Marriott made for her small wedding after shopping at the Original Los Angeles Flower Market the day before.

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Nearby, bride-to-be Emily Marriott was intent on saving money.

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