Clifton

[klif-tuhn]

noun

1. a city in NE New Jersey.

2. a male given name.

Example Sentences

While people have lived in vehicles for many years around the city, tensions have grown in recent months due to a rising number of motorhomes and caravans being parked on Clifton Down.

From BBC

“I planned all of it from the beginning,” she admits, relishing a discussion of some of the subtleties of the Clifton family dynamics that add depth to the novel.

From Los Angeles Times

Teenaged Madison Dalrymple, itching to escape with bestie Cheyenne Baker to the glamorous life in 2011 Atlanta, hates everything about her small hometown North Falls, including 70-year old Sheriff Gerald Clifton, whose “great-great — however many greats — grandfather” was a founding father of the county.

From Los Angeles Times

The Cliftons, especially Gerald, are treated like royalty by residents: “Madison’s dad joked that everybody who wasn’t a Clifton either worked for the Cliftons or had been arrested by the Cliftons.”

From Los Angeles Times

The attention Slaughter gives to building out the world of North Falls and Clifton County in the novel also allows her to touch on issues of racism, xenophobia and homosexuality, territory also mined by other contemporary Southern writers she admires, including S.A.

From Los Angeles Times