Clarissa

[ kluh-ris-uh ]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Clara.

Example Sentences

“She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day,” Woolf writes of Clarissa.

From Washington Blade

She later went on to appear (from 2000 to 2003) in the series Clarissa and the Countryman, with Johnny Scott.

From The Daily Beast

It was Derby Day when Clarissa came home to find her mother dead.

From The Daily Beast

Then, after Jennifer Paterson died in 1999, Clarissa Dickson Wright presented the One Man And His Dog Christmas Special.

From The Daily Beast

Clarissa remembered consuming “deeply unhygienic but delicious” things wrapped in banana leaves.

From The Daily Beast

After her father left the house Clarissa Dickson Wright never saw him again.

From The Daily Beast

"Dr. Vale charged him to be very cautious," rejoined Clarissa.

From Project Gutenberg

There was no hope in Clarissa's heart as she turned her steps homewards.

From Project Gutenberg

Clarissa, on the contrary, the lovely image of impassioned virtue, is drawn in lines of distracting purity.

From Project Gutenberg

Clarissa shrieked a little now and then when she remembered to, but Aldo did not seem to hear her, so she soon desisted.

From Project Gutenberg

Clarissa in her villa on Lake Maggiore was bored, so she wrote to Nancy to come and stay with her.

From Project Gutenberg