Benton

American  

[ben-tn] / ˈbɛn tn /

noun

1. Thomas Hart Old Bullion, 1782–1858, U.S. political leader.

2. his grandnephew Thomas Hart, 1889–1975, U.S. painter and lithographer.

3. a city in central Arkansas.

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Benton British  

/ ˈbɛntən /

noun

1. Thomas Hart . 1889–1975, US painter of rural life; a leader of the American Regionalist painters in the 1930s

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Example Sentences

“None of it has really changed,” Benton says.

From Los Angeles Times

Highway 395 in Mono County was closed from Tom’s Place to Benton Crossing Road as fire crews worked to get a handle on the blaze, according to the California Department of Transportation.

From Los Angeles Times

Damaryan Benton doesn’t go out of his way to respond to emails after 5 p.m.

From The Wall Street Journal

"During his Masters in Palaeobiology at Bristol, Jacob realized that many fossils previously assigned to the small marine reptile Pachystropheus actually came from coelacanth fishes," explains Professor Mike Benton, one of Quinn's supervisors.

From Science Daily

Benton is by no means alone in making this argument — and yet the data don’t provide much support for it.

From MarketWatch