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
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
Benfatti was among an estimated 6,500 St. Bernard residents who moved across Lake Pontchartrain to St. Tammany Parish in the year after the storm, an exodus unlike any other in post-Katrina Louisiana.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2022
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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