champaign

Example Sentences

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I have a roster of great wines that start around $7 or $8 and go to $13 -- my limit, unless it's champaign.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2017

The newly engaged couple appeared on Fox 5’s “Good Day DC” Monday morning, where the staff feted them with cake and champaign.

From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2015

In November came the U.S. invasion of North Africa and a sudden, inordinate drain on Eastern oil stocks; as the North African champaign became more complicated, the drain increased.

From Time Magazine Archive

He turned again to the window; mechanically his eye ranged over the lovely landscape, the far-stretching champaign of the park—one of the largest in the county, the winding river, the blue hills, the distant sea.

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf

This country is higher, drier, and more champaign, than any part bordering near the river that until then they had seen.

From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]