Pittsburg

[pits-burg]

noun

1. a city in W California.

2. a city in SE Kansas.

Example Sentences

State officials highlighted school systems where the results were more impressive, including in L.A. and Compton, the Roseville Joint Union High School District near Sacramento, the Pittsburg Unified School District inland from Oakland and Sanger Unified, east of Fresno.

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As a young lad growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area town of Pittsburg, my school uniform consisted of corduroys the color of Ash Wednesday, a white dress shirt and a maroon V-neck sweater.

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The adjustment from the minors to the majors was far easier than the change from the tiny mining town of Pittsburg, Kan., to the technicolor sprawl of Southern California.

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“Coming to Los Angeles, you’ve got to be kidding me. A big city like this?” said Russell, who had rarely traveled more than 30 miles from Pittsburg before signing with the Dodgers.

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And to the hundreds of reporters, photographers and editors I’ve learned from and been inspired by — at the Woodland Daily Democrat, the Pittsburg Post-Dispatch, Concord Transcript, Oakland Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Magazine, and the L.A.

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