Sentence examples for eileen from inspiring English sources
proper noun
Given name female
I took a girl called Eileen to my local playhouse to see Jimmy Edwards and Eric Sykes in a comedy called Big Bad Mouse.
In 1945, soon after he and his wife, Eileen, adopted a son, she died during an operation for uterine cancer.
But then in midlife, just as the couple's son is entering his teens, Ed is struck with early-onset Alzheimer's dementia, and Eileen is forced to carry her shattered family forward on her own.Mr Thomas's mother grew up in the same Irish enclave of Queens as Eileen and, like her, became a nurse; likewise, his father died of early-onset Alzheimer's.
"I think of her as a very American character," says the author of Eileen.
Other such roles that followed included Meg in Little Women (1949) and the title character in My Sister Eileen (1955).
Booth gradually developed a reputation as one of Broadway's finest actresses and appeared in more than 40 plays during the following two decades, including Excursion (1937), The Philadelphia Story (1939), My Sister Eileen (1940), Tomorrow the World (1943), and Hollywood Pinafore (1945).
"Miniskirts don't cause rape, rapists do," said Eileen Maitland of the campaign group.
Why aren't they available in the UK? Eileen Fisher's sporty sandals An easy and good-looking segue into the whole ugly shoe trend.
"Women who get to the top – the Marissa Mayers [Yahoo's CEO] and Sheryl Sandbergs – seem to be those who have put their careers first and now expect others to do the same," says Eileen Gunn, mother of a seven-year-old daughter and founder of FamiliesGo, an online media company focused on family travel.
Eileen Claussen of the Pew Centre, which represents many big businesses keen to act on climate change, said Mr Bush's new strategy was just an effort to cloak "business as usual" in some kind of finery.
It is safe to assume that these gifts were appeasements, which allowed the sale to go global.The next two days continued with record prices in almost all categories, but none was more startling than the €22m commanded by an early 20th century chair designed by Eileen Gray.
