Clarinda
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The process can be long and costly: the department was recently ordered to reinstate and shell out $195,000 in back pay to a Clarinda prison employee who the board ruled was wrongly terminated in 2017.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
“Am I Cardi B? I’m no Cardi B,” said Hickey, a stay-at-home mother living in Clarinda, Iowa, referring to the rapper.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2019
The state Department of Corrections currently has operations at Clarinda and Mount Pleasant, which houses two of the state’s four mental health institutions.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2015
At stops in Council Bluffs and Clarinda, Mr. Perry continued to present himself as an outsider who would shake up Washington with his call for a part-time Congress.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2011
Would that Clarinda had been as much alive to her own good name, and the poet's fair fame, as Peggy Chalmers, who did not preserve her letters from Burns!
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Gabriel Setoun
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