Allegra
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The organisers of the march, Allegra Petruzzi, told AFP: "All my classmates were in that fire, and most of them died, but some are still in hospital. It's for them, too, we have to fight."
From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026
Selected by Allegra Goodman, the author of the novel “Isola.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Consultancy Allegra Strategies estimates beans contribute less than 10% of the price of a cup of coffee.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024
Allegra Hyde’s 2022 “Eleutheria,” for example, follows its white protagonist to the titular Bahamian island and to Camp Hope, a commune attempting to address the ravages of climate change by living differently.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024
Allegra’s parents were both pediatricians and spent so much time fixing the health problems of other people’s kids that Allegra believed they’d forgotten they had a daughter of their own.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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