Pittsburgh
['pitsbə:ɡ]
Definition
(noun.) a city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River; long an important urban industrial area; site of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
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Examples
- Had I been looking for an example of the finest expert inquiry, there would have been little question that the vivid and intensive study of Pittsburgh's industrialism was the example to use. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Army, and was constructed by the Standard Steel Car Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The real choice narrowed itself finally to the Pittsburgh Survey and the Chicago Vice Report. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- HERON FOSTER, editor of a Pittsburgh journal, and a most estimable gentleman. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A load of steel cotton ties was raised near Natchez and a barge of iron wire near Pittsburgh. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I drove coming back and went fast with the empty car to find the man from Pittsburgh. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- In Pittsburgh. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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