[
US
/ˈstænɫi/
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NOUN
- Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
- United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
How To Use Stanley In A Sentence
- Formerly called Stanleyville, it was once known across Africa as a vibrant meeting spot for diamond runners, gold miners and foreign businessmen. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Stanley M.. Brand, a Democratic former House general counsel, said the penalty seemed personal rather than political.
- The Heskeths were on intimate terms with Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, whose country seat was Knowsley Hall (six miles east of Liverpool).
- Originally, Stanley donated this trophy as an award for Canada's top-ranking amateur hockey club.
- Stanley's complaint is about the inadequacy of phyletic gradualism to account for the known facts of paleontology and the superiority of punctuated equilibria as an explanation for those facts.
- Stanley grounds the principle of privacy on respect for persons as active agents or choosers.
- As for primogeniture, the leading modern authority on the subject, Professor Stanley Katz of the Chicago Law School, has given no weight at all to gerontophobia in causing its abolition. Growing Old: An Exchange
- Well, Stanley Donwood's artwork reminds me of the playbills from Victorian music halls or a rickety theatre troupe travelling across the land.
- Stanley was very tall and though a very sweet man, he had a deep, gravelly voice that often got him jobs on cartoon shows as dastardly villains.
- Acorn began slowly and allowed Stanley to dominate the early proceedings when scoring two converted tries.