Norris

[ nawr-is, nor- ]

noun

1. Charles Gilman, 1881–1945, U.S. novelist and editor.
2. Frank, 1870–1902, U.S. novelist (brother of Charles Gilman).
3. George William, 1861–1944, U.S. senator 1913–43.
4. Kathleen (Thompson), 1880–1966, U.S. novelist and short-story writer (wife of Charles Gilman).
5. a male given name.

Example Sentences

Norris and her husband are trying to figure out a way for her to go to work.

From Vox

In Pryor’s book, however, she presents a number of other accounts of the incident that more or less agree with Norris’s.

From Washington Post

For many years, some historians cast doubt on Norris’s account, implying that abolitionists had manipulated him into exaggerating or just plain lying.

From Washington Post

Norris’s district includes Memphis, where landlords have filed more than 13,000 eviction notices in the past year, according to Princeton University’s Eviction Lab.

From Washington Post

Each time a violation is reported by the algorithm, Norris says, it gets referred to a team of 2,000 human moderators who decide whether the behavior merits blocking.

From Time

Meanwhile, the NRA has…Chuck Norris, doing its “Trigger The Vote” Campaign.

From The Daily Beast

Here he is attending festivities for the first George W. Bush inauguration, along with Chuck Norris and Meatloaf.

From The Daily Beast

The New Face of Richard Norris Jeanne Marie Laskas, GQ For fifteen years, Richard Norris had a face too hideous to show.

From The Daily Beast

When you hear all the Chuck Norris jokes now, do you take a special pride in helping to create Chuck Norris, the myth, the legend?

From The Daily Beast

I was debating whether to bring up Chuck Norris or Scientology first, and I went with Chuck Norris.

From The Daily Beast

"Samuel Norris" said he might know of an opening for a bright young fellow there.

From Project Gutenberg

The Scots retired into their castle, which Norris proceeded to batter with two heavy guns brought from the ship.

From Project Gutenberg

What a potent architectural charm was secreted in that mystic oil with which Father Norris touched the knee of Alice!

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Norris is without a rival as a writer of "Circus Stories" for boys.

From Project Gutenberg

The only Norris what come out of it was the lad who lay tight in the fence-scrub—Jimmy.

From Project Gutenberg