Shreveport

[ shreev-pawrt, -pohrt ]

/ ˈʃrivˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt /

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noun

a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River.

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Words nearby Shreveport

shreadhead, shred, shredded wheat, shredder, shredding, Shreveport, shrew, shrewd, shrewdie, shrewdness, shrewish

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How to use Shreveport in a sentence

At the moment there’s a “giant neon highlighter” on SARS-CoV-2 and covid, says Jeremy Kamil, an immunologist based at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
How tracking coronavirus variants will prepare us for the next global public health threat|Linda Nordling|February 23, 2022|MIT Technology Review
Mark Reeves, an IT consultant in Shreveport, Louisiana, helps run a Facebook group dedicated to outing online marketplace crooks.
Facebook Grew Marketplace to 1 Billion Users. Now Scammers Are Using It to Target People Around the World.|by Craig Silverman, A.C. Thompson and Peter Elkind|September 22, 2021|ProPublica
That was particularly unexpected in Shreveport, where Kamil works.
Can Louisiana’s COVID surge trace back to one Mardi Gras reveler?|Philip Kiefer|February 11, 2021|Popular-Science
He was later transferred to the Shreveport facility and placed in intensive care.
Louisiana’s newest Republican member of the U.S. House died from COVID-19 before being sworn into office|Rachel Schallom|December 30, 2020|Fortune

The traveling show arrived in Shreveport at 7:30 in the morning after an all-night drive.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’|Peter Guralnick|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In January, the Shreveport Times reported that McAllister said that his job "sucks [and] it ain't no fun."
Duck Dynasty Congressman In Sex Scandal|Ben Jacobs|April 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In Shreveport, La., a veteran overdoses on morphine while housed in a locked VA psychiatric unit.
VA Pays $200 Million for Nearly 1,000 Veterans’ Wrongful Deaths|Aaron Glantz|April 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They met when they were living in Shreveport, La., in the mid-1990s, and by 1997 they were living together.
Gay, Southern, and Loving It|Constantino Diaz-Duran|March 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The goings-on of the Shreveport werewolf pack and Alcide (Joe Manganiello)?
‘True Blood’ Season 5: Has HBO’s Vampire Drama Lost Its Bite?|Jace Lacob|June 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Shreveport was reached in safety; and, after a short halt, the flotilla started again on their voyage up the river.
The Naval History of the United States|Willis J. Abbot.
She was one of those with whom Agnes had come on the cars into Shreveport.
Angel Agnes|Wesley Bradshaw
Weitzel and Carter would have taken us to Shreveport, with or without crackers, by Jove!
Miss Ravenel's conversion from secession to loyalty|J. W. de Forest
Then it was that a great wail of mortal distress rose from Shreveport—a call for help from one end of the land to another.
Angel Agnes|Wesley Bradshaw
To Agnes Arnold going into Shreveport, the emotions must have been very much like yours in front of that battery.
Angel Agnes|Wesley Bradshaw

British Dictionary definitions for Shreveport

Shreveport

/ (ˈʃriːvˌpɔːt) /

noun

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

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