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US
/ˈdævənˌpɔɹt/
]
[ UK /dˈævənpˌɔːt/ ]
[ UK /dˈævənpˌɔːt/ ]
NOUN
- a city in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River across from Moline and Rock Island
How To Use Davenport In A Sentence
- Davenport advances, Rubin absorbs wretched start to U.S. USATODAY.com - Davenport advances, Rubin absorbs wretched start to U.S. Open
- A.S. Tiffany [55] describes what he calls a cremation-furnace, discovered within seven miles of Davenport, Iowa. A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
- Mr and Mrs Davenport accepted and agreed with the results of the psychological evaluation.
- Davenport is a cameo, a supporting erotomaniac.
- Oh, yes, something has got to be did!" fleered Beef McNaughton, the davenport creaking under the combined tonnage of himself and Butch T. Haviland Hicks Senior
- Here my memory fails me, but I remember that, stimulated by Miss Deborah's approbation, I did commit the whole of them to memory at the time, and repeated them with a readiness and fluency which drew upon me warm commendations from the dear old lady, and in fact from all in the house, though Ellery Davenport did shrug his shoulders contumaciously and give a sort of suppressed whistle of dissent. Oldtown Folks
- With Davenport he showed that any real indefinite diagonal quadratic form, in 5 or more variables, takes arbitrarily small values for nonzero integral arguments.
- But just when Davenport looked like sweeping all before her, she ricked her back at the start of the clay-court season and hasn't been the same since.
- They sat close to one another on a rose davenport. What Would Philip Marlowe Do
- Now, I've got nothing against either Hampshire or Davenport, but they do seem like second-string replacements for the original actors.