hometown
Americannoun
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hometowns
plural
adjective
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Oddly enough, Walters’ hometown is also named Walters.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Hal has moved from Pennsylvania back to his hometown in Illinois, also called Adams, and taken a staff position at the veterans’ home, Soldiers & Sailors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
In and around his hometown of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in the western state of Maharashtra, Dipke is routinely thronged by people wanting to shake his hand or take a photo.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Recently, there was all this coverage of my hometown, because of the Idaho murders,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It was called Happytime Pizza, and it was a replica of a small family-run pizza joint that had existed in Halliday’s hometown in the mid-1980s.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Bare and Huddleston, two self-described “country hicks,” have become polarizing heroes of the rural campaign against the AI technology rewiring geopolitics, the economy—and now hometowns like theirs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Eleven of those who died have been buried at the monastery, while the bodies of the others have been returned to their hometowns for burial, according to Megabe.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Since all three of us were originally from Philadelphia, we shared stories about how most people don’t know a real Philly cheesesteak when they eat one in their hometowns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Unable to return to the south, some displaced families are sharing the cost of purchasing satellite images -- at $140 -- to catch a glimpse of their hometowns.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
She had learned that the Senate was going to conduct hearings about the parade, and she wanted to gather testimony before the suffragists returned to their hometowns.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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