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[ US /ˈfɹæŋkɫɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹæŋkɫɪn/ ]
NOUN
- United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915)
- printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790)
How To Use Franklin In A Sentence
- Benjamin Franklin was the US ambassador to absolutist France after the American Revolution.
- The Japanese cuisine, as served in the Yamato, is authentic with the various styles covering sashimi, sushi, sukiyaki and tempura items, plus many others such as yaki soba, a favorite of the golfing guru Mike Franklin.
- Men is unlike anything else on TNT, and needed a more powerful lead-in than the puerile Franklin & Bash to sell it to a mainstream audience. Ask Matt: Midseason TV, Emmys, The Good Wife, Glee, Jesse Stone and More!
- Philosophy major Wylie Dufresne hopes to dine with founding fathers, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson; compares line cooks to lab researchers; and rejects the term molecular gastronomy to define the cuisine at his Michelin-star namesake restaurant, wd~50. Louise McCready: Curious Wylie Dufresne Defends the Science of Cooking
- It was before the assembled brethren of the Lodge that he exchanged symbolic embraces with Franklin.
- Emerging from the subway to see an upturned hot-dog cart on the corner of Franklin Street.
- Franklin shared the family's scorn for his wife's new friends.
- Doc Franklin observed that it was a point of great importance and wished that the gentlemen would deliver their sentiments on it before the question was put and Mr. Rutledge animadverted on the shyness of gentlemen .... Interrogations and Presidential Prerogative
- The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. Benjamin Franklin
- You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin
