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flannery

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for flannery.

Editorial note

Looks like someone skipped out on the works of Flannery O'Connor and Shakespeare while at University.

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Quick take

A surname from Irish.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of flannery gathered in one view.

noun

A surname from Irish.

noun

(bridge) A convention using a 2♦ opening bid to show a hand of minimal opening bid strength (11-15 high card points) with exactly four spades and five (or sometimes six) hearts.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for flannery.

noun

A surname from Irish.

noun

(bridge) A convention using a 2♦ opening bid to show a hand of minimal opening bid strength (11-15 high card points) with exactly four spades and five (or sometimes six) hearts.

Example sentences

1

Looks like someone skipped out on the works of Flannery O'Connor and Shakespeare while at University.

2

The greatest American short story writer of my generation was Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964).

3

I thought The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery was very good.

4

Would love to see what Kiva's Matt Flannery is reading...

5

Just to clarify, Matt and Jessica Flannery (married) founded Kiva.

6

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor.

7

> For a few glorious pages, Noem feels like a Flannery O’Connor character with tax cuts.

8

Going into it, in my head, I thought flannery always got the shorter end of the stick and was unsure if welsh or immelt did the company bad.

9

The change from pure science and scientific reporting to scientific activism is a feature of more active scientists in recent history and include Richard Dawkins (evolution,religion), Tim Flannery (land use,disruption of ecosystems, carbon emissions).

10

...except for hiring Immelt, Immelt was a ridiculous disaster of a CEO that my god should've been fired nearly immediately, and Flannery got completely shafted, someone threw him out, grabbed his plan, and basked in the credit.

Quote examples

1

CEO John Flannery launched "Project Eisenhower," a secret plan to break up the company.

2

I think this is big part of the appeal of "A good man is hard to find" and other Flannery O'Connor works.

3

Someone asked Flannery O'Connor why she wrote, and she said, "Because I was good at it." And I think that's the right answer.

4

As in rubber-duck debugging or Flannery O'Connor's line, "I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say."

Proper noun examples

1

Sarah Flannery, a teenager at the time, took it better when her crypto algorithm was broken.

2

Flannery O’Connor was once asked whether she thought that MFA programs killed too many aspiring authors.

3

I've been re-reading Tim Flannery's 'The Weather Makers' again so perhaps I'm in a more pessimistic mood than usual.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use flannery in a sentence?

Looks like someone skipped out on the works of Flannery O'Connor and Shakespeare while at University.

What does flannery mean?

A surname from Irish.

What part of speech is flannery?

flannery is commonly used as noun.