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US
/dɪˈkeɪtɝ/
]
NOUN
- United States naval officer remembered for his heroic deeds (1779-1820)
- a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River
- a city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here
How To Use Decatur In A Sentence
- But the Decatur plant is not the only facility cited for poor quality standards.
- A small vessel known as a ketch had recently been captured from the Tripolitans, and Decatur selected this in which to make the venture. American Men of Action
- After honeymooning in Aruba, they will live in Decatur.
- Stephani Cox, a Decatur-based nurse practitioner and downstate lead clinician for Planned Parenthood of Illinois, said a herpes vaccine "would be wonderful.
- The 67-year-old radiation oncologist was narrowly elected last year in a district that includes Huntsville and Decatur.
- The company said more than 90% of the trucks produced in Decatur and 80% of the large dozer tractors built in East Peoria are exported to global mining customers. Caterpillar to Expand Mining-Truck Output in U.S., Indonesia
- It was a wooden figurehead carved in the shape of an embowed, cheerfully grinning dolphin—worn, wormholed, its paint flaking with age; the original figurehead of the schooner Enterprise, that Stephen Decatur sailed against the Barbary pirates at Tripoli, four hundred years before. THE WOUNDED SKY
- But nobody noticed the sinister shape at Decatur, Alabama, until recently, when local newsmen saw an aerial photo.
- From left: Heather Gregory, Brianna Edgemon and Blair Francis wait for the telebridge connection with our ham mentors and classmates from the Decatur Middle School Science Club. ARRL Amateur Radio News
- In July 1798, Stephen Decatur, on the sloop Delaware, captured the French schooner Croyable off New Jersey.