Topeka

[ tuh-pee-kuh ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Kansas, in the NE part, on the Kansas River.

Topeka

/ təˈpiːkə /

noun

1. a city in E central Kansas, capital of the state, on the Kansas River: university (1865). Pop: 122 008 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

Workers at the Topeka Frito-Lay plant recently ended a 19-day strike that was driven by concerns over forced overtime and 84-hour workweeks.

From Washington Post

Everybody in town who saw it hated it, not least because it was filmed in Topeka, Kansas, which looks not a damn thing like Chowchilla.

From Vox

The connection between Pierson, who lived in Topeka, and Valdez, who was from California, has not been made public.

From The Daily Beast

To initiate her career change into broadcast news, Brown mailed out 200 video resumes, to which only one studio responded and subsequently hired her — KSNT in Topeka, Kansas.

From Digiday

Bob Ross, senior vp of marketing at the Greater Topeka Partnership, expects each of the $10,000 “Choose Topeka” incentives his region offers to generate $50,000 of economic impact within just one year.

From Digiday

As a Kansas native, Brad had long been familiar with—and fascinated by—the hateful antics of the Topeka-based church.

From The Daily Beast

Instead, Drain wound up moving his family from Tampa to Topeka to join the congregation.

From The Daily Beast

Fred Phelps and several of his children have law degrees and run the successful Phelps-Chartered law firm in Topeka.

From The Daily Beast

Shirley Phelps-Roper decided to take her two daughters to New York City from Topeka, Kansas.

From The Daily Beast

Diagnosed as schizophrenic, he spent two years at the Menninger Clinic, a Topeka, Kansas psychiatric institution.

From The Daily Beast

He and his companion paid the amount required and we were permitted to ride in the parlor car to Topeka, Kansas.

From Project Gutenberg

A committee of volunteers from Topeka offered their assistance, but were told: "We do not want you."

From Project Gutenberg

Lawrence and Topeka were twenty-five miles apart, and both were on the south bank of the Kansas River.

From Project Gutenberg

The trail thence followed the divide between the creek and river to about the present site of Topeka.

From Project Gutenberg

The general opinion gathered that day was that they who wanted to fight for freedom might better go to Lawrence, or to Topeka.

From Project Gutenberg