Dorothy

[ dawr-uh-thee, dor- ]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Dorothea.

Example Sentences

The words that pour from you are astounding — proof of life and freshness and spring — the antidote to Dorothy’s absence.

From Washington Post

He begins with Dorothy, perhaps “the most misunderstood of all the Bush women.”

From Washington Post

In “The Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy went looking for meaning far away from Kansas.

From Voice of San Diego

The biggest question that came from Firefly Lane concerned Tully’s mom, Dorothy.

From Time

Dorothy speaks like Humbert Humbert and behaves like Hannibal Lecter.

From Washington Post

Dorothy Parker once noted that “the only ‘ism’ Hollywood cares about is plagiarism.”

From The Daily Beast

In 1940 he married Dorothy Spence and soon had two young sons, Jim and Chris, to support.

From The Daily Beast

You almost feel like she carried something with her from the Dorothy Parker generation.

From The Daily Beast

When the Delle Donna's daughter, Dorothy, turned 15, Medrano testified, she bought the girl a dog.

From The Daily Beast

“I would disappear in a puff of smoke and then reappear,” a former Dorothy recalled during her return to the Land of Oz.

From The Daily Beast

Dame Dorothy Packington sent the trusty and well beloved Thos.

From Project Gutenberg

Fifteen years prior to the commencement of our story, Dorothy had been found by farmer Rushmere on the wild common fronting them.

From Project Gutenberg

Lovers our little Dorothy had by the score, though she was never seen but at church or at market.

From Project Gutenberg

Old Rushmere had raised an unreasonable persecution against his son on Dorothy's account.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a few days after the bursting of this domestic thunder-cloud, that Gilbert and Dorothy were thrown alone together.

From Project Gutenberg