Ripley

[ rip-lee ]

noun
  1. George, 1802–80, U.S. literary critic, author, and social reformer: associated with the founding of Brook Farm.

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How to use Ripley in a sentence

  • The difference with Ripley was that she had won and survived.

  • For the team that helped Nadia during those first days at Camp Ripley, her case is one they cannot forget.

    An Unspeakable Crime | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon | December 28, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • “She ended up becoming a part of Ripley,” said Capt. Stibral.

    An Unspeakable Crime | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon | December 28, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Then they had said that the boss stayed up with Mr. Ripley that night until after ten o'clock, and had then gone up to go to bed.

    The Wreckers | Francis Lynde
  • Mr. Ripley says they sat in the lobby until after ten o'clock, and then Mr. Norcross went up to his rooms.

    The Wreckers | Francis Lynde
  • Ripley briefed the general situation as it stood on the night of the engine theft in a few terse sentences.

    The Wreckers | Francis Lynde
  • I remembered what he had said to Ripley about a woman's giving him germ ideas and such things, and I guess it was really so.

    The Wreckers | Francis Lynde
  • In another field, and this time under Ripley's instructions, our ex-cow-punch' had been able to set and bait a trap.

    The Wreckers | Francis Lynde

British Dictionary definitions for Ripley

Ripley

/ (ˈrɪplɪ) /


noun
  1. George . 1802–80, US social reformer and transcendentalist: founder of the Brook Farm experiment in communal living in Massachusetts (1841)

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