Balliol
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Balliol authorities seemed not to find this amusing, even with the coy little hyphens.
From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2020
Protesters waving European flags even gathered outside Balliol College, Mr. Johnson’s alma mater at Oxford.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2019
Herron was a student, like Johnson, at Balliol College, Oxford, and may have overlapped with him in the 80s.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2019
Like Johnson, he is a product of both Eton and Balliol College, at the University of Oxford.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 19, 2019
It was only after Pappachi died that Chacko resigned his job as lecturer at the Madras Christian College, and came to Ayemenem with his Balliol Oar and his Pickle Baron dreams.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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