Sentence examples for orlando from inspiring English sources
proper noun
Of Italian origin, equivalent to Roland.
Orlando Santos Jr, a professor of urban planning at Rio's federal university, said the city's poorer northern zone would see few benefits from the Games.
Six of the original members – Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Rubén González, Orlando "Cachaíto" Lopez, Pío Leyva, Manuel Puntillitaa" Licea – have passed away.
The other priest who was kidnapped, Orlando Yorio, died in 2000.
In 1976, her brother, Orlando Yorio, along with another Jesuit priest, Francisco Jalics, were seized by navy troops in the slums of Buenos Aires and held and tortured for five months at the ESMA camp, a navy base in the capital where 5,000 people were murdered by the military junta.
There is a degree of relish in her voice as she talks me through the journey on which Orlando goes, the way the character's life is reflected in lovers taken along the way, the way she is briefly "consumed by sex, by what Woolf called the vulture of lust", the way "she learns from the world" and the way in which Orlando, ultimately, "becomes herself in the end".
While filming Scott & Bailey, she sat down with one of the Royal Exchange's artistic directors, Sarah Frankcom, to look at a number of possible projects – Thérèse Raquin and Mary Stuart were mentioned – before settling on Orlando.
(Orlando-Kissimmee is sixth).
An Orlando-bound Airbus A330 operated by Virgin Atlantic returned to Gatwick shortly into the flight when smoke was discovered in the cabin.
East Kent has Orlando Bloom.
"The obvious explanation turns out to be the right one," says Orlando Patterson of Harvard, who points out that every black population in the Americas has low rates of two-parent families.
(Orlando International Airport, the gateway to Disney World, saw a record number of passengers last year).
