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Example sentences for: brooklyn

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Malamud was born in Brooklyn in 1914 (and died in 1986), and he grew up in the kind of immigrant environment in which little children, because they are the native-born half of a foreign-born neighborhood, are obliged to shield their vulnerable elders from the contempt of the outside world.
And why is it, the critics ask, that Quindlen's protagonist, the abused wife of a Brooklyn cop, sounds so much like a sophisticated Manhattan journalist?
In addition, at 8:53 nine Brooklyn units were staged on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn-BatteryTunnel to await possible dispatch orders.
Laurie Hiett, 36, wife of Col. James Hiett, surrendered to federal authorities in Brooklyn on Thursday."
Television -- Brooklyn South (CBS);