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Fontana

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[fon-tan-uh, fawn-tah-nah] / fɒnˈtæn ə, fɔnˈtɑ nɑ /

noun

  1. Domenico 1543–1607, Italian architect.

  2. a city in S California.


Example Sentences

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No one saw this faster or closer up than the San Bernardino County town of Fontana.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s also where and when industrial titan Henry J. Kaiser broke ground on a steel-making defense plant, and within a year, Fontana had been utterly altered, as the headlines said, “from pig farms to pig iron.”

From Los Angeles Times

Until 1942, Fontana was where plain folks worked hard land, with pig farms, grapes, vegetable gardens.

From Los Angeles Times

Historian Ric Dias tells that story in his book “Kaiser Steel of Fontana.”

From Los Angeles Times

Anaheim Canyon, 5:45 p.m. at El Modena Fontana at Sultana, 6 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times