Whittier

[hwit-ee-er, wit-]

noun

1. John Greenleaf 1807–92, U.S. poet.

2. a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.

Whittier

/ ˈwɪtɪə /

noun

1. John Greenleaf. 1807–92, US poet and humanitarian: a leading campaigner in the antislavery movement. His poems include Snow-Bound (1866)

Example Sentences

A native of Whittier, Orozco was sentenced in 2014 to serve 16 years for robbery, court records show.

From Los Angeles Times

Should the maps pass, Sánchez is likely planning to run in the redrawn 41st District, which will include her home of Whittier, leaving the new 38th District without an incumbent candidate.

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Other schools, including Pioneer High School in Whittier, also claimed students were hit with the jet fuel.

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But Loma Vista Elementary and the South Whittier School District were tracking Adrian’s attendance and moved in quickly to provide positive attention and family help, an approach overwhelmingly favored by most experts.

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The maps include a new congressional seat in Los Angeles County that would stretch through the southeast cities of Downey, Santa Fe Springs, Whittier and Lakewood.

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