Sarah
Americannoun
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the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. Genesis 17:15–22.
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a female given name.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Sarah
From Late Latin Sarra, from Greek Sárra, from Hebrew śārāh “princess”
Example Sentences
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For 29-year-olds Shane Williams, an estate agent, and Sarah Camden, who worked in a bank, they realised their jobs meant they weren't seeing each other very often.
From BBC
Sarah Short was due to return from a holiday in Dubai to Heathrow on Saturday.
From BBC
That email doesn't specify what "matter" he's referring to, but since 2009, Stern, Epstein, and Sarah Ferguson had been engaged in a long and painful wrangle about her acute financial troubles.
From BBC
Spiritualists, possibly also Leah and Daniel Underhill, offered to pay for both sisters to stay at a well-known residential rehab facility run by Dr. George Taylor and his wife, Sarah.
From Literature
Chief executive Sarah Wootton said that the fact that every year "up to 650 terminally ill people end their own lives, often in lonely and traumatic ways," proved the need for reform.
From BBC
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