King's Lynn

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noun

a historic town in Norfolk, England.

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Words nearby King's Lynn

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How to use King's Lynn in a sentence

I wish I was a young Carole King, working in the Brill Building.
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"That was crazy," Lynn Jenkins of Kansas muttered to another member as she walked to greet Boehner.
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As played by Omundson, King Richard is effeminate, sincere, and ten times funnier than everyone else.
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But his words felt forced and were belied his 2004 vote to oppose marking Martin Luther King Jr.
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The last film about Martin Luther King was made for television in 1977.
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The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
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A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
The King of Delhi had a hunting-lodge somewhere in the locality, but he had never seen the place.
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The archbishop of Manila sends to the king (July 30, 1621) an account of ecclesiastical and some other affairs in his diocese.
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The sad end of the mission to King M'Bongo has been narrated in the body of this work.
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British Dictionary definitions for King's Lynn

King's Lynn

/ (ˈkɪŋz ˈlɪn) /

noun

a market town in E England, in Norfolk on the estuary of the Great Ouse near the Wash: a leading port in the Middle Ages. Pop: 40 921 (2001)Also called: Lynn, Lynn Regis

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