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Sinclair
[sin-klair, sing-, sin-klair, sing-]
noun
Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
May, 1865?–1946, British novelist.
Upton (Beall) 1878–1968, U.S. novelist, socialist, and reformer.
a male given name: a family name taken from a French placename, Saint Clair.
Sinclair
/ sɪŋˈklɛə, ˈsɪŋklɛə /
noun
Sir Clive ( Marles ). born 1940, English electronics engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, who produced such electronic goods as pocket calculators and some of the first home computers; however, the Sinclair C5 (1985), a small light electric vehicle for one person, proved a commercial failure
Upton ( Beall ). 1878–1968, US novelist, whose The Jungle (1906) exposed the working and sanitary conditions of the Chicago meat-packing industry and prompted the passage of food inspection laws
Example Sentences
All of this would be business as usual for Alex except for one problem: After quickly filing his review of the show, he bumps into Hayley Sinclair, its creator and star, in a bar.
He was Upton Sinclair, who ran for governor of California in 1934 on a platform he called “EPIC,” for “End Poverty in California.”
“For various reasons, it didn’t happen. The first big project we did was to record Sinclair Lewis’ novel ‘Babbitt.’
Several days later, author Upton Sinclair stood on a hilltop above the harbor, and began reading from the Bill of Rights.
A next step, in novels such as Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here,” involves a direct attack on the Supreme Court if it declines to affirm a president’s agenda.
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