Queens
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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"I can't believe it. Now we don't have noise and all our equipment is still working," Arevalo, 59, told AFP from his food cart parked under the shade of trees in a Queens park.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
His family was living in the Woodside neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., where his parents had immigrated from Greece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In 1982, Il Yeon Kwon, a Korean immigrant, realized that New Yorkers needed a reliable source for napa cabbage, the essential ingredient in kimchi, and opened a small grocery store in Queens.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Scunthorpe's skyline has four blast furnaces, all named after English Queens - Bess, Mary, Anne and Victoria.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
But when we got to Queens, in New York City, in the United States of America, I became dumb, just because I couldn’t speak English.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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