Yonkers
['jɔŋkəz]
Examples
- Then, as it lowered its speed near Yonkers, she rose from her seat and drifted slowly down the carriage. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The first example is said to have been produced by Elisha Graves Otis, who applied steam power to an elevating machine in a little shop at Yonkers, on the banks of the Hudson, New York. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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