East Ender
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He’d spent much of his childhood on the small side, prior to an 11th-hour growth spurt, and like East Ender Tony had contemplated a career as a jockey.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2019
Lynn, the East Ender who said she was going to work in Woolworth’s, devoted her life to family and to literacy, working with kids, some with special needs, at libraries.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 27, 2019
She was an East Ender born and bred.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2016
Among the crew is Jim Page, a born-and-bred East Ender and hearse driver, the only non-Muslim of the group.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2014
Our East Ender is perhaps accustomed to publicity; his slum does not conceal its feelings—it quarrels, and makes love, without drawn blinds, and privacy is not an essential of its ardours.
From Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital by Muir, Ward
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