Oil City

American  

noun

1. a city in NW Pennsylvania, on the Allegheny River.

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Example Sentences

She is finishing primary school and learning how to play the flute -- all things that would have been impossible in the oil city of Cabimas, near Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo, where the family had fled from in desperation.

From Barron's

In 2017, Iraqi forces retook disputed territories including the oil city of Kirkuk.

From Reuters

"We're poorer every day and I don't think more elections will be the definite solution to this disaster," said vegetable seller David Lugo, 54, who lives in formerly prosperous oil city Maracaibo.

From Reuters

A longtime politician born and raised in one of the few remaining conservative pockets of California, the farming and oil city of Bakersfield, Mr. McCarthy cut his teeth in the California State Assembly as the minority leader, where he was known as a people-pleasing deal-cutter who doled out iPods as gifts to his colleagues and compiled binders of information to better remember their birthdays and wedding anniversaries.

From New York Times

In 2009, the director Julien Temple released a documentary about Dr. Feelgood, “Oil City Confidential,” which “promotes Wilko Johnson as a 100-1 shot for the title of Greatest Living Englishman,” Peter Bradshaw wrote in a review in The Guardian.

From New York Times