Emporia
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The change in the net-sales guidance was because of a recent fire at the company’s Emporia, Kan., manufacturing facility.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
Max McCoy, Emporia State’s sole journalism professor, penned a column that began, “I may be fired for writing this” — before learning this would be his last year teaching at the school.
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
The black Chevrolet was again parked, this time in front of a Catholic hospital on the outskirts of Emporia.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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