Example sentences for: brownsville

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

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • Thousands of residents along the southeastern coast of Texas fled in advance of the hurricane, which lost strength Sunday afternoon and made landfall in a sparsely populated area south of Corpus Christi and north of Brownsville.

  • He attended Brownsville Junior College in the early 1930s, earning an A.A. degree in 1936.

  • Though I'd had a very different childhood from Kazin and approached Manhattan from a direction completely different from Kazin's Brownsville, I remembered vividly the sense of possibility the drive suggested.


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