Sybil

[ sib-uhl ]

noun

1. a female given name.

Example Sentences

And this year, inspections by the county’s Sybil Brand Commission have revealed mold, rats, fires, broken toilets, sink drains filled with “small black worms” and cells covered in feces.

From Los Angeles Times

During their Thursday morning meeting, members of the Sybil Brand Commission — a county oversight body that inspects local jails — panned the idea of a “care first” facility, saying “care first” is “not a thing” in the historically troubled culture of Los Angeles jails.

From Los Angeles Times

“The degree of callousness they were exhibiting was just horrific,” said Eric Miller, one of the two Sybil Brand Commission inspectors who wrote the report.

From Los Angeles Times

Two years ago, the county’s Sybil Brand Commission reported that people living in some dorms of the Century Regional Detention Facility — the primary women’s jail — couldn’t get tampons, for unclear reasons.

From Los Angeles Times

The disorder was the basis for the best-selling 1973 book “Sybil,” by Flora Rheta Schreiber, about a woman who was said to have had 16 personalities.

From New York Times