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Lois

American  
[loh-is] / ˈloʊ ɪs /

noun

  1. a female given name.


Example Sentences

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“Our friends at home said, ‘No, don’t go!’ ” said Lois Chapman, a longtime annual visitor from Ontario who came to Palm Springs this month for a shortened stay with her husband after initially planning to cancel their trip altogether.

From Los Angeles Times

Lois: “I think ‘Baby Shark’ is a terrible song.

From The Wall Street Journal

Lois Norris, representing Coates, said the application was an "ambush by Mr Harrison's legal team".

From BBC

He was first rendered with clean lines and broad shoulders in the series of Fleischer Studios cartoons that began with a 1941 short where Superman goes head-to-head with a mad scientist who has imprisoned Lois Lane, performing incredible feats of strength along the way.

From The Wall Street Journal

The 1970s were a humanistic era of filmmaking, defined by filmmakers ranging from Martin Scorsese to Hal Ashby, and Reeve chose to locate the human in Superman not through his nervous Clark, but through the genuine tension in his romance with Lois Lane, then played by Margot Kidder.

From The Wall Street Journal