Used in a Sentence

marilyn

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

Editorial note

Can you imagine Marilyn Monroe's famous beauty mark or Leonard Nimoy's arched eyebrow on the wrong side?

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Quick take

A female given name originating as a coinage.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A female given name originating as a coinage.

noun

(UK) A mountain or hill with a relative height of at least 150 metres.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for marilyn.

noun

A female given name originating as a coinage.

noun

(UK) A mountain or hill with a relative height of at least 150 metres.

Example sentences

1

Can you imagine Marilyn Monroe's famous beauty mark or Leonard Nimoy's arched eyebrow on the wrong side?

2

It's subjective, and the reason one might like Stokowski, another Marilyn Manson, and yet another both.

3

Yeah when they made the film How to Marry a Millionaire in 1953 with Marilyn Monroe, a million really meant something.

4

Frankly, I don't really care that much if they spy on Marilyn Monroe or John Lennon or Richard Feynman or whoever.

5

Our romantic artistic culture idolizes burnouts and addicts: Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis.

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PS - Just to reiterate I am in no way trying to blame Marilyn vos Savant or deflect any of it onto her.

7

The episode progressed from the origins of the genre to what we have today, from Alice Cooper to Marilyn Manson and to Rammstein.

8

I had an IQ score higher than Marilyn vos Savant's once.

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Using salient observations like those opined by Marilyn vos Savant in her old 'ask Marilyn' column it was conceded that individualization and mutualization are sustainable while open-end charity with no sense of culturally enforced mutualization is fatally maladaptive, given received human nature.

10

I just want to start off by saying that I am not, at all, trying to place blame on Marilyn vos Savant for any of this.

11

I can't arrange for an in-store pickup when I order something from Amazon, and I can't order a copy of any Marilyn Manson CD from Wal-Mart.

12

Being a canny guy he probably thought he best stick to the Marilyn and soup themes making sure he put his name on everything so that in aeons hence there would be no doubt whatsoever that these were his definitive artworks.

Quote examples

1

The bullshit didn't even have to be believable: "Marilyn Manson was the kid that played Paul from the Wonder Years.

2

A more modern example of an icon in this sense could be Andy Warhol's images of Marilyn Monroe: calling them "silk-screened reproductions of the portrait of an actress" doesn't capture anything about their cultural meaning.

3

"Is adult entertainment killing our children, or is killing our children entertaining adults?" - Marilyn Manson Not to mention the peers of the deceased, who probably have a similar sense of schadenfreude.

4

There was a stool there, made of chunky wood, that he said, with a boyish smile, he had carved out "in the shape of Marilyn Monroe's rear." It was not a good fit for my own posterior.

Proper noun examples

1

Marilyn Monroe: 'It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.' Mae West: It's better to be looked over than overlooked.

2

Please update your profile's link to Project Marilyn.

3

Marilyn Wedge has more or less built her current career on this position, but my own experience, however anecdotal, and any number of peer-reviewed studies don't really back her story very well.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use marilyn in a sentence?

Can you imagine Marilyn Monroe's famous beauty mark or Leonard Nimoy's arched eyebrow on the wrong side?

What does marilyn mean?

A female given name originating as a coinage.

What part of speech is marilyn?

marilyn is commonly used as noun.