burg
Example Sentences
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It was the stand-in for a Midwestern town in Tom Hanks’ “That Thing You Do” and for a southern burg in “Big Mama’s House,” among many others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025
The town is Maplewood, a quaint commuter burg which is home to a number of New York Times employees and, probably not coincidentally, is the subject of frequent coverage in the New York Times.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2023
The former timber and mining burg of Index, roughly 60 miles northeast of Seattle, once welcomed such pass-through traffic along its few unpretentious blocks via a 10-mile winding road from Gold Bar.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
The success of "Mare of Easttown" makes the declining factory burg the new favored destination for meaty, complex storytelling.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2021
There they were welcomed again with joy and renewed hope; for now there were men enough to man both the burg and the barrier wall.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
