Belleville
Americannoun
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a city in SW Illinois.
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a city in NE New Jersey.
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a city in S Ontario, in S Canada.
Example Sentences
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Late on a cold afternoon in March, a motorist in Belleville, Ill., came upon a young boy wandering down a busy street without shoes and wearing only a T-shirt and pajama bottoms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
He said that cities where voters of color are the majority — such as Newark, Patterson, Belleville, Passaic, and Atlantic City — are key targets for the campaign.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2025
Mr. Heil died on Feb. 28 of cancer in a hospital in Belleville, Ill., his daughter Julie Staley said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
The Soviet fighter plane crashed into a parking lot and struck unoccupied vehicles at a nearby apartment complex in Belleville, about 30 miles west of Detroit.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
No sign of Rabbi Shilsky, whom I traced to a Brooklyn address in the 1960s, where he apparently landed after wandering through Norfolk, Virginia; Belleville, New Jersey; and Manhattan.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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