Charley
Americannoun
plural
CharleysExample Sentences
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When “Drinkin’ Thing” reached No. 10 in May 1974, Stewart became an in-demand player and was tapped to join Charley Pride’s touring band.
“If you’re not with the cemetery, but you said—you’re here about Charley?”
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Charley, a scholarship student at a fancy school, and she assumes she’s talking to his rich classmates.
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But his mother has now called him Charley several times.
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“Of course there wasn’t another boy to name after my father. There wasn’t another anybody to name after anybody. If I’d have known that was going to be the case, then maybe I would have, but—no, I still wouldn’t have insisted we name him after Dad. He was Charley from the moment he came out, even I could see it.”
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