Used in a Sentence

susan

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

Editorial note

Bob can marry Jane but Susan can't, because Bob is a man and Susan is a woman.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A female given name from Hebrew.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A female given name from Hebrew.

noun

(historical) A person from the ancient city of Susa.

noun

(computer graphics) Acronym of Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for susan.

noun

A female given name from Hebrew.

noun

(historical) A person from the ancient city of Susa.

noun

(computer graphics) Acronym of Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus.

adjective

(historical) Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Susa.

Example sentences

1

Bob can marry Jane but Susan can't, because Bob is a man and Susan is a woman.

2

Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said she and others would continue to seek reforms and oversight.

3

That article by Susan kept coming to mind while reading this one.

4

Warren and Susan remained married until her death in 2004.

5

Lazy susan revenues.) But when the promo subsidies end, or the happy-to-lose-for-a-while fish who are attracted by mass advertising reach 'extinction', the bulk revenue can disappear just as quickly.

6

Where are the opinions of women like Susan Sons and Meredith Patterson who quite like nerd culture and feel it's misunderstood by many of those writing about what's wrong with tech culture?

7

In a company of any significant size, Joe over in Finance is hacking away at a spreadsheet utterly and blissfully unaware that Susan in Corporate would gladly chop her left arm off for the data he's producing.

8

That's clearly discrimination based purely on the sex of the participants (and not the sexual orientation, which is merely the thing that might cause Susan to want to do this, but not relevant to whether it's allowed) and IMO a clear violation of the equal protection clause.

9

If more policymakers try to contort the effectiveness of IUDs into a tool for social engineering or make its use a condition for state support, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation may find itself needing to fund yet another battle—to ensure that a woman not only has access to an IUD, but that it is her choice to get one.

Quote examples

1

The book "Fixing My Gaze" by Susan Barry details her journey to to gaining stereo vision for the first time at age 50.

2

“I’d have to agree with Susan on them not being interested in us at all,” Shostak said.

3

To tie this back to tech, Susan Lammers' "Programmers at Work" interviews from the mid-1980s (consistently), and Jessica Livingston's "Founders at Work" (at its best) both bring this same kind of openness and honesty.

4

I have no memory of most of the videos except that they usually portrayed idjits in sitcom-like skits ("Susan, do you think it's against our corporate ethics to steal this truck of PCs from the loading dock and sell them in a supermarket parking lot so we can buy more drugs for the team that's writing the malware that we sell protection services for?

Proper noun examples

1

Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine is the book that brought the ideas home for me.

2

I also know Jim and Susan, been to their place in the city, hung out.

3

Susan Kare designed the icon on Apple's command key.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use susan in a sentence?

Bob can marry Jane but Susan can't, because Bob is a man and Susan is a woman.

What does susan mean?

A female given name from Hebrew.

What part of speech is susan?

susan is commonly used as noun, adjective.