Lake Placid

American  

noun

1. a town in northeaster New York, in the Adirondack Mountains: known as a resort town and sometimes host to the Winter Olympics.

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Example Sentences

Tolkan died Thursday in Lake Placid, N.Y., where he lived, his booking agent, John Alcantar, told the Associated Press on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times

Shortly after taking a bobsled run with Team USA in Lake Placid, N.Y., in 2009, Colbert described the experience.

From Los Angeles Times

Kurt Cobain strummed the grunge anthem’s iconic four-chord opening riff on a 1969 Fender Mustang, Lake Placid Blue with a signature racing stripe.

From Los Angeles Times

Like a humble laborer who, in the poet’s words, “hoisted hewn rock into heaven” but didn’t live to see his life’s work completed, the defenseman didn’t make the 1980 hockey team—his cathedral—that won gold in Lake Placid.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each Olympic sport has had its iconic American triumphs too: Who can forget the 1992 basketball “Dream Team” in Barcelona, or the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” in Lake Placid?

From Los Angeles Times