Queens

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/ kwinz /

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noun

a borough of E New York City, on Long Island. 113.1 sq. mi. (295 sq. km).

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Words nearby Queens

queen olive, queen palm, queen post, queen regent, queen regnant, Queens, Queen's Award, Queen's Bench Division, Queensberry, Queensberry rules, queen's bounty

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How to use Queens in a sentence

For some reason, I had it in my mind that you were largely in India traveling the world, but I didn’t have you living in Queens as a teen.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas Believes in Walking the Walk, Not Talking the Talk|Pallabi Munsi|February 12, 2021|Ozy
Wilczek was raised in Queens, New York, the son of immigrants and the product of public schools.
A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos|Claudia Dreifus|January 12, 2021|Quanta Magazine
I took a basic class twice, so had plenty of time to learn in the relative safety of a small parking lot in Queens, New York.
I rode an electric motorcycle for the first time. Here’s what I learned.|Rob Verger|December 10, 2020|Popular-Science
She also frequently consults and speaks on diversity, management and digital strategy, and fashions herself an expert on where to eat in Queens.
During COVID, immigrants are getting the job done|Karen Yuan|December 2, 2020|Fortune

By the first week of September, city officials identified four potential hot zones in Brooklyn and Queens.
New York’s block-by-block lockdowns are curbing covid-19. But residents aren’t pleased.|Ben Guarino|November 8, 2020|Washington Post
He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.
Mario Cuomo: An OK Governor, but a Far Better Person|Michael Tomasky|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He was born in an apartment above the grocery store owned by his immigrant parents in South Jamaica, Queens.
Mario Cuomo, a Frustrating Hero to Democrats, Is Dead at 82|Eleanor Clift|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In 2007, at Jamaica high school in Queens, teachers started calling 911 to get police to help them deal with disorderly students.
Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Branch grew up in Queens, NY, the daughter of an African American man and a Japanese woman.
Goodbye To A Natural Hair Guru: Miss Jessie's Cofounder Titi Branch Dead At 45|Danielle Belton|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hughes, a middle-age black man from Far Rockaway in Queens, has never been a part of any protests himself but supports them.
‘They Let Him Off?’ Scenes from NYC in Disbelief|Jacob Siegel|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Two queens of the snobocracy will entertain us at romping in the hay, with Sir Roger de Coverley to follow.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3)|Charles James Wills
On the right and on the left reposed, each in a massy sarcophagus, the departed kings and queens of Spain.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
Kings and princes had sought for his friendship; queens and princesses had lavished on him their sweetest smiles.
Chicot the Jester|Alexandre Dumas, Pere
Without an ace, four kings, two queens and a knave are required in order to justify the declaration.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
It must be a king and knave or two queens above the average if there is protection in three suits.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Queens

Queens

/ (kwiːnz) /

noun

a borough of E New York City, on Long Island. Pop: 2 225 486 (2003 est)

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