Nantong
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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If he can’t make a living in Nantong either, he said, “I’ll just have to live off my parents.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
Most of the staff are from the nearby city of Nantong and have worked here for more than 20 years.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025
An employee measures a newly manufactured ball mill machine at a factory in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China June 28, 2019.
From Reuters • Dec. 1, 2021
A backslapping 49-year-old native of Nantong, a city located about two hours northwest of Shanghai, Huang moved to Namibia nearly two decades ago.
From New York Times • May 2, 2017
In 2010 in Nantong, a city in southeastern China’s Jiangsu province, an elderly woman was found stuck in a fence by a supermarket; by the time an ambulance arrived, she had already died.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2016
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