Example Sentences

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Lindy Hop, the grandfather of all swing, emerged in 1920s New York during the Harlem Renaissance—an explosion of black artistic creativity following the Great Migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

In that Peacock series, Elizabeth Banks’ Lindy Littlejohn is a best-selling author tired of diminishing her well-earned reputation to placate her husband, a bumbling scientist.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

Two decades earlier, Lindy, for her part, made a smash, and a packet, with “My Rainbow Starts With Black,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, seemingly based on her own dysfunctional family, and its Oscar-winning film adaptation.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The Girl Bosses, the pussy-hatted women at the “Women’s March,” the snarky bloggers and the comment section warriors and Lindy West herself—these were never the whole of millennial feminism.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

I do a little Lindy move, right there on the sidewalk, and spin her.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz