Wilkinsburg

[wil-kinz-burg]

noun

1. a borough in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.

Example Sentences

The gun was not connected to the Wilkinsburg killings, Mr. Jubas said.

From New York Times

The case stunned the county and Wilkinsburg, a suburb just east of Pittsburgh with a population of about 16,000 that has struggled with drug trafficking and gun violence.

From New York Times

Investigators in the Wilkinsburg case, Mr. Jubas said, based charges against Mr. Thomas and Mr. Shelton on a “very poorly cobbled together investigation.”

From New York Times

One night, at a barbecue in Wilkinsburg, Pa., near Pittsburgh in 2016, a gunman fired at the partygoers, driving them to a house’s back porch, where a second gunman picked off victims with an assault-style rifle.

From New York Times

Before Williams became a Pittsburgh officer, his encounters with police had included running from them as a child in Wilkinsburg, a mostly Black borough in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

From Washington Post