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Willa

American  
[wil-uh] / ˈwɪl ə /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Wilhelmina.


Example Sentences

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Even if it had to be walking away from Baby Willa, it’s something that she felt like she needed to do and that’s what postpartum make you do sometime.

From Los Angeles Times

It was Perfidia’s job to go and anchor this boat and stay there and create the path for Willa to take on these battles, because her past haunted Willa and Bob.

From Los Angeles Times

That’s a part of Perfidia being supporting — supporting the next steps of what is for Willa.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s for Willa to go on and to rise.

From Los Angeles Times

But even in their sketchy state, there is intellectual pleasure to be had in Morrison’s exacting, appreciative readings of Twain, Willa Cather and Gertrude Stein—the last of whose innovations in language, Morrison writes, made Stein “the writer other writers became different through.”

From The Wall Street Journal