Lansing

[ lan-sing ]

noun

1. Robert, 1864–1928, U.S. lawyer and statesman: secretary of state 1915–20.
2. a city in and the capital of Michigan, in the S part.
3. a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.

Lansing

/ ˈlænsɪŋ /

noun

1. a city in S Michigan, on the Grand River: the state capital. Pop: 118 379 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

Within that population are more than 1,000 Congolese families, many of whom began settling in the Lansing and Grand Rapids area about 20 years ago, says Freddie Nyembwe, president of the Lansing Congolese Community.

From Time

His parents and most of his siblings live in Lansing, about 70 miles away.

From Time

One of those iconic divers was Clen Sohn from Lansing, Michigan, who was one of the first wingsuit users all the way back in 1935.

From The Daily Beast

My first “job,” was working for the Gannett Company as a delivery boy for the Lansing State Journal at the age of 11.

From The Daily Beast

Well, Detroit has been dying since the day I was born in a hospital in Lansing, Michigan, in 1967.

From The Daily Beast

I did my first job, as a delivery boy for the Lansing State Journal, in the late 1970s with the help of my 10-speed.

From The Daily Beast

Even in Fatal Attraction, Lansing said that audiences always rooted for the horrible, cheating husband he played.

From The Daily Beast

Stopped for dinner at Peter Lansing's, whose farm is about midway between the two cities.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Lansing moved instead, that legislation be vested in the United States in Congress, and again urged a confederacy.

From Project Gutenberg

Presented by his recent widow, the present Mrs. Lansing, of Poughkeepsie.

From Project Gutenberg

He knew that her strongest love had not been given to him, it had been given to her other nephew, his cousin Lansing Harold.

From Project Gutenberg

Lansing Harold had no intention of trying hydropathy, unless the wide view of the river from all his windows could be called that.

From Project Gutenberg