Frances

[ fran-sis ]

noun

1. a female given name: derived from Francis.

Example Sentences

A little later, Frances asked if she could send some food ahead of her.

From Time

McCarthy’s Frances, a famous romance novelist, has been catfished out of a huge sum of money and arrives reeling from news that her publisher hates her new book so much, it’s talking about buying out her contract.

From Time

William’s 23-year-old daughter Frances was forced to finish her Georgetown University degree from home last spring.

From Washington Post

Frances spent much of the summer and fall working with researchers at the local history center, plus historians at William & Mary and the University of Virginia.

From Washington Post

It was one of the first times I had really hung out with them, and somehow the character of Frances was able to shine through because they were holding a space for it.

From Washington Post

And so it is that Frances and Lilian fall in love, and, from that, (very thrillingly written), all hell breaks loose.

From The Daily Beast

I wanted Frances to be completely confident about her sexuality.

From The Daily Beast

In the novel, the moral situation Frances ends up in is dreadful.

From The Daily Beast

Mr. Kallison was “a strong but also a very gentle man,” Frances said.

From The Daily Beast

Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates and Sarah Paulson and Frances Conroy.

From The Daily Beast

Sister Ann Frances was inclined to defend Hilda's imperfect acquaintance with primary arithmetic.

From Project Gutenberg

No, perhaps,' as her eyes fell on the still weeping Frances, 'it would be better to wait a little.

From Project Gutenberg

Jacinth and Frances Mildmay are walking home from school, carrying their little bag of books.

From Project Gutenberg

Lady Myrtle smiled, and gave a little pat to Frances's shining tangle of curly hair.

From Project Gutenberg

She was a sort of a saint, and I'm quite sure that now she's'——But here Frances burst into tears.

From Project Gutenberg