Five Towns
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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His draft stock rose considerably while playing for the Elev8 Baseball Academy in Delray Beach, Florida, this year after previously competing for his high school team, The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2021
He's like an upper-middle-class kid from the Five Towns of Long Island.
From Salon • Jan. 28, 2020
A head-and-neck surgeon, he moved to New York, met Sondra, a nurse, whom he married, and settled with her in Lawrence, one of the Five Towns, on Long Island.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019
Likewise, readers from the Midlands who recognise where Turnhill, Bursley, Hanbridge, Knype and Longshaw really are when reading Arnold Bennett’s Five Towns books enjoy a little thrill of superiority.
From The Guardian • May 26, 2015
Like many women, and not a few men, in the Five Towns, she was wholly ignorant of the staple manufacture.
From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
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