Holyoke

[hohl-yohk, hoh-lee-ohk]

noun

1. a city in S Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River.

Example Sentences

Farren said that while he lost his Mount Holyoke Drive home where he lived with this two sons, his request to look into claims practices wasn’t driven by his personal experience with State Farm — which he deemed likely “better than most’’ — but from what he heard from other policyholders.

From Los Angeles Times

The intersection, blocked off by military humvees and local police, was roughly a mile from the remains of Harvilicz’s home on Mount Holyoke Avenue, one of hundreds destroyed by the Palisades fire.

From Los Angeles Times

In the early 2010s, she enrolled in the Massachusetts women’s college Mount Holyoke but dropped out after a semester because, Loomer told the Forward, she felt ostracized as a student conservative.

From Slate

Nonny Hogrogian, an illustrator who drew on her Armenian heritage to bring diversity and wonder to her woodcuts and watercolors — an approach that helped expand the world of children’s literature and made her a two-time Caldecott Medal winner, died on May 9 at a hospital in Holyoke, Mass. She was 92.

From New York Times

Issues regarding water — including water access for agriculture, as well as water quality and water availability in wells — will also be crucial, along with healthcare access issues, said Thomas Holyoke, a professor of political science at Fresno State University.

From Los Angeles Times