Riis
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Riis exposed Lower East Side slum conditions in tenement photographs that would form the basis for his renowned book, “How the Other Half Lives.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
Jesper Riis Christiansen believes that the findings demand vigilance.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
They work a short corner inside the opening minute and Alan Browne swings over a deep cross to the far post, where Emil Riis heads home.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2024
When the hospital’s destruction was announced, activists associated with the abutting beach, Bay 1 of Jacob Riis Park, a longtime refuge for L.G.B.T.Q. and other marginalized people, began a grass-roots effort to save the fish.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
At the time of Riis’s talk, Riis and Addams were two of the best known people in America.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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