Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wilkins
IPA transcription: [w'ɪlkɪnz]
Pronunciations of wilkins
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Wilkins, Maurice_Wilkins, Maurice_Hugh_Frederick_Wilkins
    Meaning: English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA (1916-2004)
  • Synonyms: Wilkins, George_Hubert_Wilkins
    Meaning: Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958)
  • Synonyms: Wilkins, Roy_Wilkins
    Meaning: United States civil rights leader (1901-1981)
Usage examples
  • Mrs. Wilkins could not speak.
  • In fact Mrs. Wilkins, driven by terror, guilt and surprise, had been more incoherent if possible than usual.
  • James Andy Wilkins "gave the slip" to a farmer, by the name of George Biddle, who lived one mile from Cecil, Cecil county, Maryland.
  • Some people were like that, Mrs. Arbuthnot knew; and if Mrs. Wilkins had actually seen her at the mediaeval castle it did seem probable that struggling would be a waste of time.
  • And what disturbed Mrs. Arbuthnot about this suggestion was that she did not make it solely to comfort Mrs. Wilkins; she made it because of her own strange longing for the mediaeval castle.
  • Mrs. Wilkins meant their husbands, persisting in her assumption that Frederick was as indignant as Mellersh over the departure of his wife, whereas Frederick did not even know his wife had gone.
  • JAMES ANDY WILKINS, and wife LUCINDA, with their little boy, CHARLES, CHARLES HENRY GROSS, A WOMAN with her TWO CHILDREN--one in her arms--JOHN BROWN, JOHN ROACH, and wife LAMBY, and HENRY SMALLWOOD.
  • No, Mrs. Wilkins had no doubts, but she had fears; and March was for her too an anxious month, with the unconscious Mr. Wilkins coming back daily to his dinner and eating his fish in the silence of imagined security.
  • "We've been too good--much too good," Mrs. Wilkins kept on murmuring as they walked up and down the platform at Victoria, having arrived there an hour before they need have, "and that's why we feel as though we're doing wrong.
  • Though she couldn't approve of the way Mrs. Wilkins was introducing the idea of predestination into her immediate future, just as if she had no choice, just as if to struggle, or even to reflect, were useless, it yet influenced her.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Jim Henson, License CC BY-SA 4.0