Clifton

[klif-tuhn]

noun

1. a city in NE New Jersey.

2. a male given name.

Example Sentences

Music and football played big roles in Turner’s life while growing up in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Clifton, Va.

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Emergency services were called out to the fires in Holywell Avenue - in Ashby-de-la-Zouch - at 07:05 GMT, Prestop Drive at 07:08 and Clifton Drive at 07:19 on Friday.

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Justice Albert Louis Sachs, one of the writers of South Africa’s first democratic constitution, is a resident of Clifton, South Africa, the Cape Town beach community off which the São José sank.

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Clifton Ko, a film director who shot to fame in the 1980s with irreverent comedies, was tapped by security officials to play to a more serious tune this time.

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“The book says one of those men sits outside my bedroom door all night,” Kennedy said to General Chester Clifton, his top military aide.

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