Lise
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Lise, an accountant with lips “normally pressed together like the ruled line of a balance sheet,” is taking a vacation.
Lise has run-ins with other passengers aboard her flight and, once at her destination, befriends a bumbling, dotty widow.
Only Spark could pull off a character as strange, compelling and ultimately moving as Lise.
Indeed, as the French science journalist Lise Barnéoud explains in her fascinating book, “Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism Is Redefining Human Identity,” the phenomenon isn’t even rare.
The president of the Norwegian FA, Lise Klaveness, admits that Grainger was not on their initial list of candidates when they started to recruit for a new head coach and was only added to increase the number of females they saw.
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