Example sentences for: brownsville

How can you use “brownsville” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There were riots, and the brutal reception of Moynihan's report on the black family, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville teachers' wars, and open admissions at City College.

  • No wonder Kazin was drawn to the bridge in A Walker in the City . Brownsville, the neighborhood in Brooklyn where he came from, had one foot in eastern Europe and one in the New World.

  • Américo Paredes was born in Brownsville, Texas, on September 3, 1915.

  • In Alfred Kazin's memoir, A Walker in the City , the subway ride from Brownsville to Manhattan "quantified the vast physical and social distance that existed between the Jews of Brooklyn and the 'real' New York."

  • The scene of my mother's childhood, Brownsville, in Brooklyn, is now light-years distant from the culture in which she grew up.


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