Greenville
Americannoun
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a city in NW South Carolina.
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a city in W Mississippi, on the Mississippi River.
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a city in E North Carolina.
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a city in NE Texas.
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a city in W Ohio.
Example Sentences
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He’s hopping in a car next Sunday with his wife, saying goodbye to a North Hollywood house that’s been in his family since 1952 and driving 3,300 miles to his new home in Greenville, S.C.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026
The developments that meet its toughest standards: Arizona State’s Mirabella and the Woodlands at Furman University in Greenville, S.C.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
In 1960, he participated in his first sit-in, in Greenville, South Carolina, and then joined Alabama's Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marches in 1965, where he caught King's attention.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
Jackson was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1941 to a single, teenage mother Helen Burns.
From Salon • Feb. 17, 2026
When he described driving from Colby to Charlotte to Greenville and everywhere in between, she said, “It must be so fun to go to all those different places.”
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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