Gastonia

[ga-stoh-nee-uh]

noun

1. a city in S North Carolina, W of Charlotte.

Example Sentences

The former president claimed in front of a crowd in Gastonia that the federal government used funds to support immigrants instead of providing disaster relief.

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The fourth church, New Hope Baptist of Gastonia, N.C., had failed to participate financially in the convention and showed no intent “to resolve a question of faith and practice,” the committee said without elaboration.

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After an Army stint that included working for Stars and Stripes and a brief time at the weekly Franklin Press newspaper in the North Carolina mountains, the Observer hired him to open the paper’s Gastonia bureau.

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They live near Gastonia, a city of roughly 80,000 people west of Charlotte.

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Also on Tuesday, in Gastonia, N.C., 24-year-old Robert Louis Singletary shot several neighbors, including a 6-year-old girl, after a basketball strayed into his yard, according to local police.

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