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Example sentences for: waterloo

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To evaluate wind conditions at the site at the time sewage sludge was applied, we used a computer program (WRPLOT Version 3.5, Lakes Environmental Corp., Waterloo, Ontario), topographic information, and historical weather data from Pease Air Force Base located approximately 5 km from the site.
Five years later, the Taira were overthrown after being defeated in the straits between western Honshu and Kyushu, at the titanic sea battle of Dannoura — which has a place in Japanese annals comparable to Waterloo or Stalingrad.
In September, 1989, preceding what has come to be known as the Waterloo Conference on the OED (because its first four annual meetings were held at the University of Waterloo, Ontario), members of the European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX) held a symposium on dictionary reviewing.
When all is said and done, you can take off to Waterloo, Farewell, or Worldsend.
The rationale behind referring to them as “lost” arises from the author's observation of an unfortunate state of affairs: because of an increasingly widespread lack of familiarity with the basic, structural elements of our culture—Greek and Roman mythology, the Bible, literature, and ordinary historical fact—people today are unable to discern the origins of terms like aphrodisiac, Achilles [sic] heel or tendon, meet one's Waterloo, sow dragon's teeth , and hand-writing on the wall , to name a few.