Example sentences for: orleans

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

  • 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.

  • On quite another cultural plane, a 1798 law against gambling was ignored in New Orleans, where the card game of poker is said to have originated.

  • And for a good two decades--until about six months ago, in fact--I listened to one of my favorite Tom Waits songs, "I Wish I Was in New Orleans (In the Ninth Ward)," thinking the Ninth Ward was a wing of Bellevue rather than a neighborhood in New Orleans.

  • The high-society frolics of the Vaudreuil era were over; the Spanish governor’s wife froze out the Creole ladies of New Orleans from official invitation lists.

  • 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.


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