Ennis
Americannoun
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a town in N Texas.
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a male given name.
noun
Example Sentences
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He said the film’s main characters, Ennis and Jack, “taught all of us who made ‘Brokeback Mountain’ so much about the gay men and women whose love is denied by society,” and went on to thank original story author Annie Proulx, along with adapted screenplay winners Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.
From Los Angeles Times
One thing is certain: As a one-stop shop for classic L.A. locations, you can’t do much better than “The Day of the Locust,” which takes us to the Ennis House, Paramount’s iconic Bronson Gate and Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
From Los Angeles Times
Working to piece together a mystery in the fictional town of Ennis as it braces for weeks of endless darkness, she later has a tense exchange with Trooper Evangeline Navarro — played by queer professional boxer turned actress Kali Reis — telling her, “We’re just gonna do this one thing. Work together to close this case. And that’s it for the two of us.”
From Salon
Dylan Ennis regularly takes his sushi-loving son out to restaurants and said he enjoys people’s reactions to the 4-year-old using chopsticks like a pro.
“I grew up with home cooked meals, where getting the Happy Meal at McDonald’s was like the happiest day of my life,” said Ennis, a 33-year-old professional basketball player living in Spain.
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