Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

Brockville

American  
[brok-vil] / ˈbrɒk vɪl /

noun

  1. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

A similar thing happened four years later with Simmonds, who had been cut after a tryout with the OHL’s Mississauga Ice Dogs and was playing Junior A hockey in Brockville.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2022

Brockville General Hospital in Prescott, near the crash, said it received five patients who all required critical care and said one other patient was sent to a hospital in Kingston, Ontario, by air ambulance.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2018

When a Post reporter knocked on the door of the unit identified by local property records as owned by Brockville, a woman who answered said that no one named Svetlana lived at the apartment.

From Washington Post

The plane flew to Brockville, flew back again without Dr. Smith when he refused to be separated from his wife.

From Time Magazine Archive

These boys go, in the first instance, to Brockville, in the province of Ontario, whence they are distributed out among the Canadian farmers.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner