Preston

[ pres-tuhn ]

noun

1. a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
2. a male given name.

Preston

/ ˈprɛstən /

noun

1. a city in NW England, administrative centre of Lancashire, on the River Ribble: developed as a weaving centre (17th–18th centuries); university (1992). Pop: 184 836 (2001)

Example Sentences

On piano was legendary session man Billy Preston, who co-wrote and recorded the original version one year before Cocker's.

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The Ebola Wars By Richard Preston, New Yorker How genomics research can help contain the outbreak.

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In 1991 you married Kelly Preston, yet still stories persisted that you hit on men in hotel and country club shower rooms.

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And this is why the testimony from McLeod and Preston was so extraordinary.

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Alex Preston always manages to find a way to be present in any song that he sings.

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Seven months later Captain Preston and other soldiers implicated in the riot were tried before a Boston jury.

From Project Gutenberg

England would never again send a Preston or a Skelton to bow down before the majesty of France.

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Attucks was killed by Montgomery, one of Captain Preston's soldiers.

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Then the talk fell into decency after the regulation merriment had greeted Mr. Preston's closing effort.

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No place of worship in Preston is so finely decorated, so skilfully painted, so artistically got up.

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