belle

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Recent Examples of belle Voted one of the best islands in the US nine years in the running, this belle of the Lowcountry never goes out of style. Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Dec. 2025 In the end, Taylor left the villa with Carraway, a Southern belle. Shania Russell, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025 Through vivid, often surprising portraits — like that of a charismatic preacher offering unsparing historical tours, or a woman who proudly inhabits the persona of a Southern belle — the film captures the contradictions and complexities of a community living within the shadow of its own mythology. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025 McClanahan's character, Blanche, was the Southern belle of the group and also a widow. Melina Khan, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for belle
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Noun
  • Director Kyle Balda serves up a cup of comfort and joy with his pleasant, cozy British mystery, a creature feature charmer where cute talking animatronic sheep hoof it about a quaint little village to figure out who slew their genial shepherd George (Hugh Jackman).
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
  • Daniel Chong, 104 minutes Pixar’s latest family-friendly charmer depicts a land war — over a patch of earth that was once occupied by beavers and other wildlife and that human developers are eager to blow up for a highway.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The queens of the ballroom extravaganza have moved both costume designer Qween Jean’s fabulous couture and the cats’ quest for immortality up to the main stem with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s righteous blessing.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • Katie is kind of the queen of late-breaking news to important men in her life, but unlike Archie’s debacle with Sunny, Greg can very easily take back his intent to leave.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • Heracles discovered the Hydra's den in the Lernaean Swamps with the aid of the goddess Athena and was able to break or sever its many necks — while using fire to prevent them from growing back — until only a single immortal head remained.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 May 2026
  • People have been carving pregnant-goddess figurines since the Stone Age, and depictions of pregnancy are a recurrent theme across art history.
    Elizabeth Kiefer, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • The property is home to more than 100 animals, including zebras, camels, kangaroos, foxes, lemurs, otters and even sloths.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 7 May 2026
  • The species evolved to adapt, with some growing larger and others smaller than their mainland counterparts, explaining the larger size of the island scrub-jay and the small size of the island fox.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2026

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“Belle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belle. Accessed 15 May. 2026.

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