Plainfield

[pleyn-feeld]

noun

1. a city in N New Jersey.

2. a town in NE Connecticut.

Example Sentences

Charlie Hunnam leads the show’s third installment, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story,” premiering Friday on Netflix, as the titular “Butcher of Plainfield.”

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Born in 1906, Gein was raised on an isolated farm in Plainfield, Wis., by an alcoholic father and an ultrareligious mother, whom he adored and defended until her death in 1945.

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In Plainfield, New Jersey, two people died when a car was sept away by floodwaters as the storm hit, Governor Murphy said on Tuesday.

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Meanwhile, strong thunderstorms were being blamed for at least three deaths in central New Jersey, including two men in Plainfield who died after a tree fell onto a vehicle they were traveling in during the height of a storm there, according to a city Facebook post.

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In New Jersey, authorities say among the three killed were two men, aged 79 and 25, who died after a tree fell onto their car in Plainfield during Thursday's severe storm.

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