Pleasantville
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y — As she approached her senior year in high school, the thought of moving on to college was “scary and intimidating” to Milianys Santiago — especially since she would be the first in her family to earn a degree.
From Los Angeles Times
In addition to being the home of Fender, Fullerton was also the place where many families moved in search of the ideal, pleasantville life depicted as the American dream.
From Los Angeles Times
You’d be forgiven, driving through my part of Arlington, if you thought you had stumbled into a monochromatic alternate reality—Pleasantville, before the color arrives.
From Slate
When the war finished, the family relocated to Pleasantville, N.Y.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Ferencz, who lived in New Rochelle, N.Y., and in recent years in Delray Beach, Fla., with his son Donald, taught at Pace University in Pleasantville, N.Y., from 1985 to 1996.
From New York Times
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