Five Towns
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He was soon baking for the Five Towns Woman’s Exchange and by 16 had hired his first employee, a classmate from home economics.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2023
His draft stock rose considerably while playing for the Elev8 Baseball Academy in Delray Beach, Florida, this year after previously competing for his high school team, The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2021
He's like an upper-middle-class kid from the Five Towns of Long Island.
From Salon • Jan. 28, 2020
A head-and-neck surgeon, he moved to New York, met Sondra, a nurse, whom he married, and settled with her in Lawrence, one of the Five Towns, on Long Island.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019
Probably no one in the Five Towns takes a conscious pride in the antiquity of the potter's craft, nor in its unique and intimate relation to human life, alike civilised and uncivilised.
From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
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