Orne
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The unit was part of an operation charged with securing bridges over the River Orne and Caen Canal so they could be used by Allied forces moving inland from the Normandy beaches.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2024
The Borrego Art Institute and Kesling’s Kitchen on Palm Canyon Drive, for instance, share a long, low, glass-walled building designed in 1951 by William Kesling and updated from 2011 to 2013 by Richard Orne.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2023
But along with the lightkeepers’ journals and the usual suspects like Stevenson and Coleridge, and looking at interviews with lumberjacks from the period, we came across the work of Sarah Orne Jewett.
From Slate • Oct. 22, 2019
Defoe has a couple of sentences here and there that are completely intact from Sarah Orne Jewett’s sailors and sea captains.
From The Verge • Oct. 18, 2019
The battlefield extends from the woods which border the Moselle above Metz to Roncourt, near the river Orne.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
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