schrank
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of schrank
From Pennsylvania Dutch; compare German Schrank “cupboard”
Example Sentences
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On Friday, the day after the raid, the ICE agent in charge of the operation, Steven Schrank said all 475 detainees were "illegally present in the United States".
From BBC
On that date, Theodore Roosevelt, another former president campaigning for a return to the White House, was shot by a mentally ill bar owner from New York City named John Schrank.
From Salon
According to the Washington Post, “Schrank died in a mental institution in 1943.”
From Salon
In which city did Theodore Roosevelt survive being shot by a deranged saloonkeeper named John Flammang Schrank in 1912?
From Slate
"The government is fiddling with a system that's fundamentally broken," Nina Schrank from Greenpeace told BBC News.
From BBC
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