St.-Jérôme

[ seynt-juh-rohm; French san-zhey-rohm ]

/ ˌseɪnt dʒəˈroʊm; French sɛ̃ ʒeɪˈroʊm /

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a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, NW of Montreal.

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Question 1 of 7

Choose the sentence that uses "rent" correctly.

The St. Thomas gathering happened around 2005, according to Krauss.
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At St. Barnabas Hospital, Pellerano was listed in stable condition with wounds to his chest and arm.
Shot Down During the NYPD Slowdown|Michael Daly|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Church bells pealed from St. Catherine of Siena parish one block away.
The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise|Jason Berry|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Jennie Jerome, who went on to become Lady Randolph Churchill, was born in Brooklyn in 1854.
The Real-Life ‘Downton’ Millionairesses Who Changed Britain|Tim Teeman|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST

By Jerome Groopman, New Yorker Researchers get closer to outwitting a killer.
The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, Dec 22-28, 2014|William Boot|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the evening, St. Peter's and its accessories were illuminated—by far the most brilliant spectacle I ever saw.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The great plague of this and the subsequent year broke out at St. Giles, London.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Her "St. Agnes" is an interesting rendering of a well-worn subject.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
A volcano broke out in the island of St. George, one of the Azores.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Austria's fall was due to the lethargy and hesitation of the courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison