Sylvanus
Americannoun
plural
Sylvaninoun
Example Sentences
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"Some agencies lure young people with promises of large payments. The government is tracking those agencies linked to this fraud," Sylvanus Osoro, Kenya's parliamentary majority chief whip, told the BBC.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025
Sylvanus Thayer, considered the “father of the military academy,” was superintendent in the 1820s.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2023
The so-called “Thayer System,” established by the Superintendent Sylvanus Thayer in the early 19th Century, is still the form of academic instruction at the Academy.
From Salon • May 25, 2019
For this first environmental staging of Christopher Chen’s 2016 Obie award-winning brain teaser of a play, interactive theater specialist Ed Sylvanus Iskandar collaborated with local stage performers and designers, visual artists and restaurateurs.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2017
Sylvanus give me a smile, then put his head back in his book.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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