Example sentences for: orleans

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

  • As a young man, the brilliant and tormented Chambers, a Columbia University dropout, consorted with married women, was caught stealing dozens of books from the New York Public Library, and bummed his way to New Orleans (he would later identify with Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg).

  • But surround the soundtrack with silence and mount it in a frame of its own, and you have a stylish, silky knockoff of Duke Ellington's "Creole" style: a Hollywood makeover of a Northeastern version of raucous New Orleans jazz.

  • By 1840 New Orleans was the world’s largest cotton port, second only to New York as a general port, and the fourth biggest city in the United States, with a population of 100,000.

  • The governor of New Orleans, 23-year-old Don Bernardo de Gálvez, seized the chance to help the colonists in their struggle against George III, and led raiding parties that kept the British outposts along the Mississippi on the defensive.

  • In New Orleans, Dole charged the paper with ignoring a story about a Miami drug dealer who got invited to the White House.


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