Olean
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“I fed them to my children, and only then would they stop crying for a while,” Olean once told an interviewer.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023
Cole Geise, 22, from Olean, went missing on May 2.
From Fox News • May 20, 2021
The abandoned well lies in the forests of Olean, New York, which was an oil boomtown at the turn of the 20th century.
From Reuters • Jun. 16, 2020
Before his Batavia posting, Anderson had been regional editor for a group of GateHouse Media newspapers and a bureau chief for the Olean Times Herald in Olean, New York.
From Washington Times • Oct. 15, 2019
The son of Italian immigrants, he had come into the world in Olean, New York, on January 26, 1917, eleven and a half pounds of baby under black hair as coarse as barbed wire.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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