Shaker Heights
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, an affluent Cleveland suburb, and went to college in Michigan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
Ms. Orlean grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, an affluent suburb of Cleveland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Its events take place in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2023
Maybe the book’s most startling confidence comes six pages in, when he speaks of joining his older brother in pounding their heads against the dining-room wall of their upwardly mobile 1930s Shaker Heights home.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2022
By the time they graduated, he had fallen for Shaker Heights as well, the way Elena described it: the first planned community, the most progressive community, the perfect place for young idealists.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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