Shreveport

[shreev-pawrt, -pohrt]

noun

1. a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River.

Shreveport

/ ˈʃriːvˌpɔːt /

noun

1. a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River: centre of an oil and natural-gas region. Pop: 198 364 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

Whit Davis, from Shreveport, Louisiana, told the BBC that he had been on and around Bourbon Street since the beginning of the evening.

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An amendment adding the abortion drugs to the Schedule IV classification was pushed by Sen. Thomas Pressly, a Republican from Shreveport and the main sponsor of the bill.

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He backed a map that created a new majority Black district stretching across the state, linking parts of the Shreveport, Alexandria, Lafayette and Baton Rouge areas.

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The newly drawn 6th Congressional District stretches from Baton Rouge to Shreveport and has a Black majority.

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The Legislature responded with a map creating a new district crossing the state diagonally and linking Black populations from Shreveport in the northwest, Alexandria in the center and Lafayette and Baton Rouge in the south.

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