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Decatur

[ US /dɪˈkeɪtɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. United States naval officer remembered for his heroic deeds (1779-1820)
  2. a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River
  3. 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.
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