boldface
Example Sentences
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In his 12-hour documentary for PBS, Burns digs into our nation’s bloody, messy and triumphant founding by chronicling more than the “boldfaced names we all know,” as he told the Journal.
The dinner had been planned, and the boldface names were there to discuss Ukraine.
From New York Times
“The coming 18 months, however, may be the most strategically significant in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein,” it added, putting that in boldface.
From New York Times
He was a boldfaced name for his brief prison stay on drug charges, his liver transplant and the revelation that he was the sperm donor for Melissa Etheridge’s two children with Julie Cypher.
From New York Times
Norma dreams of being a boldface name again, yet gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, as herself, feasts on her misfortune, and breathlessly reports Norma’s ultimate downfall from the star’s bedroom.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
