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

But when grim Boreas thunders; when the East And black-winged West, roll out the sonorous peal, The teeming dikes o’erflow the wide champaign, And seamen furl their dripping sails.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

And along this river from Aquixo to Pacaha, and Coligoa, are 150 leagues: the country is plain, and the woods thin, and in some places champaign, very fruitful and pleasant.

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