Emporia
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Tyson’s Emporia, Kan., plant, initially slated to close in 2008, continued operating with fewer workers then closed for good this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
In Kansas, Emporia State University this fall cut 33 faculty — most of them tenured — using an emergency pandemic measure that allowed universities to bypass policies on staff terminations to balance budgets.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2023
“A lot of this comes down to who speaks for rural students,” said Dan Colson, an Emporia State professor of English whose job has also been eliminated.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2022
Grizzard's father, Claude Umstead Parrish, was a Merita Bread salesman who went in on a commercial bakery in Emporia, Virginia in 1941 with $15 and sweat equity.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022
By midafternoon the black Chevrolet had reached Emporia, Kansas—a large town, almost a city, and a safe place, so the occupants of the car had decided, to do a bit of shopping.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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