Rangoon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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From frying crab Rangoon to sneaking naps on bags of rice, her story illustrates one family’s struggle to grasp the American dream, but it’s not all stir-fry and fortune cookies.
From Los Angeles Times
And so it has these strange lines out of this guy going into this reverie about being posted in Rangoon.
From Washington Post
The wadded-up paper filling the body of the takeout container — rather than cargo of a lot more crab Rangoon — is the letdown here.
From Seattle Times
In it, he wrote that the country’s architecture should focus on historical and regional styles, and resist the “creeping cancer” of modernism that was making “everywhere — from Riyadh to Rangoon” look similar.
From New York Times
In the capital Yangon, then known as Rangoon, she was swept up in a student-led revolution against the then junta that had plunged the country into a ruinous isolation.
From Reuters
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