Shaker Heights
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Ms. Orlean grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, an affluent suburb of Cleveland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
But we learn almost nothing about Shaker Heights — how large it is, whether it has much culture, what businesses are there, where people like to eat.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2023
It’s an important issue for the 42-year-old Chinese American author, whose parents emigrated from Hong Kong and raised her in Pittsburgh and Shaker Heights, Ohio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2022
Maybe the book’s most startling confidence comes six pages in, when he speaks of joining his older brother in pounding their heads against the dining-room wall of their upwardly mobile 1930s Shaker Heights home.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2022
But in Shaker Heights, things were peaceful, and riots and bombs and earthquakes were quiet thumps, muffled by distance.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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