Oxon Hill

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noun

a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.

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How to use Oxon Hill in a sentence

There, except for living in Oxon Hill for a year, he grew up in Silver Spring.
Drew Pisarra’s ‘dangerously funny and queerly inventive brain’|Kathi Wolfe|July 23, 2021|Washington Blade
It begins Friday, when families can visit one of three historic sites — Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel, the Ridgeley Rosenwald School in Capitol Heights, or Oxon Hill Manor in Oxon Hill — to pick up a kit with activity books and games.
25 things to do this week in the D.C. area|Fritz Hahn, Anying Guo|June 17, 2021|Washington Post
Police identified the victim as Andre Butler of Oxon Hill, Md.
Man fatally shot outside store in Southwest Washington|Peter Hermann|April 22, 2021|Washington Post
At the time, police linked the robbery with that of a liquor store in Oxon Hill, where surveillance photos showed one of several masked men appearing to hold a semiautomatic rifle.
4 people, 8 carjackings and 13 robberies: Police take down group accused in D.C.-area crime spree|Dan Morse|March 18, 2021|Washington Post

The first episode features volleyball player Rainelle Jones of Oxon Hill.
Maryland athletics launches streaming platform. It’s like ‘Netflix for Terps.’|Emily Giambalvo|November 23, 2020|Washington Post
Cruce operates the Iron Hill Campground on the other side of the highway.
The 7-Year-Old Plane Crash Survivor’s Brutal Journey Through the Woods|James Higdon|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The procession continued on to the Cypress Hill Cemetery, where Ramos was buried the week before.
Funeral Protest Is Too Much for NYPD Union Boss|Michael Daly|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Johnson knew that the proposals he was going to send to the Hill would be divisive.
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society|Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
So not only will the GOP have control in the Senate, it will move the center of gravity on Capitol Hill hard to starboard.
The Democrats’ Black Hole—and What They Can Do About It|Michael Tomasky|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But then the summit gives way to the other side of the hill, and a childlike glee arises from the whooooosh of the descent.
Biking With the Bard|Kara Cutruzzula|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There is an odd triangular-shaped hill that rises on one side very boldly and abruptly, called the Fox's Head.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
It was all breeze and freshness, and the sunlight struck picturesquely aslant the hill-sides.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
At last he came to quite a hill, on the summit of which grew a tree with branches close to the ground.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
Newhall Hill used to be the favourite spot, and the first meeting held there was on January 22, 1817.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
The characteristics of the different forms are well shown in the table on opposite page, modified from Hill.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd