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US
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[ UK /lˈuːiz/ ]
[ UK /lˈuːiz/ ]
NOUN
- United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951)
- English critic and novelist; author of theological works and of books for children (1898-1963)
- United States labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 to 1940 (1880-1969)
- United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)
- United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809)
- United States athlete who won gold medals at the Olympics for his skill in sprinting and jumping (born in 1961)
How To Use Lewis In A Sentence
- Let’s move to a more recent example of what I can only call institutionalised racism in American reporting of Iraq I have to thank reader Andrew Gorman for this gem, a January Associated Press report about the killing of an Iraqi prisoner under interrogation by US Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jnr. Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Incomprehensible Demoralization
- A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. C.S. Lewis
- Lennox Lewis and the rest of boxing await the answer with not inconsiderable interest.
- Someone said to me, they thought it was markable that Edna Lewis was a chef during the time when there were few black men and almost no women chefs. Memories of Southern Chef Edna Lewis
- Cmdre Eric Lehre (ret'd) versus MGen Lewis MacKenzie (ret'd) on the subject of Canadians and NATO in Afghanistan. Welcome to 'maybe'
- Arriving at the confluence with the Columbia, of the river whose banks they were following, they perceived that it was the same which had been called _Lewis river_, by the American captain of that name, in Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific
- Still, on watching the movie a good couple of decades since I last read the book, as much as I found it enjoyable enough, I couldn’t help but start to think through just what Lewis is saying here, in allegorical terms, just how it all turns on the idea that, by the rules of Deep Magic, Edmund must die. Thoughts on Narnia
- Uh , hi . I'm Philip Stuckey, Edward Lewis's lawyer. - Where's the guest of honor?
- Steve's new mechanic mate causes ructions in the Lewis household - not least with wayward teenager Hannah.
- Lewis has a fighting chance to win the gold medal.