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Painesville

American  
[peynz-vil] / ˈpeɪnz vɪl /

noun

  1. a city in NE Ohio, on Lake Erie.


Example Sentences

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“He can contest it the way Gore did in 2000,” offered Tom Griggs, a Painesville steelworker.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2016

Fifty-year-old John Spano Jr. was sentenced Thursday in Painesville, 30 miles east of Cleveland, after pleading guilty last month to 16 counts of forgery.

From Washington Times • Jun. 19, 2015

Painesville, Ohio, 30 miles east of Cleveland, offers a snapshot of some people caught up in the system.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2014

She taught at Lake Erie College for Women in Painesville, Ohio, and Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., before joining the Georgetown faculty in the mid-1960s.

From Washington Post

With him and his family I passed a comfortable hour, and then moved forward in the direction of Painesville.

From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Glazier, Willard W.