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

Early visions of Duddingston Loch had haunted me through the day; and hence I had sought again the scene that so sweetly combines the Alpine and champaign, as if they here met to embrace.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

The eastern, which comprehends all the county except the four western baronies, rests on a limestone base, and is, generally speaking, a level champaign country, but contains large quantities of wet bog.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various