Dolores

[ duh-lawr-is, -lohr- ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Null spoke of Dolores with great fondness, saying he had first met her when she attended one of his talks in the 1980s.

From The Daily Beast

Frank says that the radio broadcast he and his father listened to ended with no mention of Dolores.

From The Daily Beast

At the hospital, Dolores only grew sicker despite the zinc and Vitamin D and other supplements and remedies she took on the sly.

From The Daily Beast

He and his sister were at least able to be with Dolores as she reached the end on April 30.

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At the time, Dolores was working as a dietitian for a women and children’s center affiliated with a Brooklyn hospital.

From The Daily Beast

Rowling is careful, explicit even, to note that this woman was not “the real Dolores Umbridge.”

From The Daily Beast

For so much of the Harry Potter series, Voldemort was the ghost story, but Dolores Umbridge was the actual ghost.

From The Daily Beast

Dolores has abundant gripes, late arrivals, and a sluggish pace among them.

From The Daily Beast

That love of transforming herself actually makes it fun for Racette to alternate between Mefistofele and Dolores Claiborne.

From The Daily Beast

Dolores Huerta has been arrested 22 times—and badly beaten—for fighting for farmer and immigrant rights.

From The Daily Beast

Guards were everywhere and peons rode ahead to inform the major-domo, and he came riding like devils to meet Doña Dolores Terain.

From Project Gutenberg

Dolores Tristeza held the parrot up so that she might see me.

From Project Gutenberg

He walked quietly into the room, overhearing the words of Dolores.

From Project Gutenberg

Dolores could not understand their low conversation in English—and Afro-Americanese!

From Project Gutenberg

But if you would come, you would find friends everywhere, besides Dolores.

From Project Gutenberg