Pontchartrain
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Then the levees, never well designed, were breached in multiple locations and 80% of the city, which sits in a bowl between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, found itself under water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2025
And those that aren’t removed from the storm drains eventually get washed through the system and into Lake Pontchartrain — the large Gulf of Mexico inlet north of the city.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2024
She says her home, in Pontchartrain Park, a once-segregated black neighbourhood now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is one she will "never" sell.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
“He liked not answering to anyone,” said Schneider, who has taught in St. Tammany Parish, just across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans proper, since 2007.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2023
We are standing at a window on the top floor of the Pontchartrain Hotel.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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