Pontoise
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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All three defendants are set to appear at a court in Pontoise, near Paris on Wednesday following a trial in March.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
Bagpipers played Amazing Grace at his funeral in the Pontoise district of Paris.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2015
Judge Dominique Andréassier of the court in Pontoise, northwest of Paris, ordered the American carrier to pay a fine of $265,000.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2010
Eugene Turpin, 78, inventor of melinite;* of pulmonary congestion, at Pontoise, France.
From Time Magazine Archive
The engine-driver, to save the train, had, with terrible risk to the passengers, pushed on at a frightful speed to the pompe d'incendie of Pontoise.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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