Example sentences for: houston

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

  • That scandal, you may remember, featured the elder Bush secretly flying not to Houston but to Paris in October 1980 to cut a deal with the Iranian mullahs so that the American hostages would not be released before Election Day--thus, according to the theory, ensuring Ronald Reagan's victory over Jimmy Carter.

  • He has laundered over $9 million dollars into banks in Houston and was arrested in 1995 for attempting to smuggle currency out of the U.S.

  • VP16-RAR-LBD was a gift from Dr. David Moore, Baylor, Houston, Texas.

  • All of these can also be found in the best dictionary of American dialects: Frederic G. Cassidy and Joan Houston Hall's Dictionary of American Regional English , including, as it happens, the same illustrative quotations used in Yankee Talk plus some additional ones.

  • Sports writers debated whether it's a triumph for 1) Knicks guard Allan Houston, a previous underachiever who scored 32 points in the decisive game; 2) Coach Jeff Van Gundy, who had nearly been fired earlier in the season; or 3) New York, whose prestige was already bolstered by cleaner streets and lower crime.


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