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US
/ˈmɛmfəs, ˈmɛmfɪs, ˈmɛmpfəs, ˈmɛmpfɪs/
]
NOUN
- largest city of Tennessee; located in southwestern Tennessee on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River
- an ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo)
How To Use Memphis In A Sentence
- Memphis was 7-3 entering the week, but six of the victories were against teams from lesser conferences.
- The same mythologem is also active in Dylan's opus, where - with the inclusion of the deepest part of the psyche - came to the repetition and extension of the transformation process, explicitly expressed in Dylan's song "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" from 1966: Expecting Rain
- That last complaint is tragicomic given that Memphis schools typically rank among the nation's five worst with fewer than half of black males graduating from high school. Tennessee's Chamber Maids
- He was assassinated the day after addressing a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis.
- Karwoski, a high-flier on the Scottish business scene, was in a plane headed to New York which was swiftly grounded at Memphis airport as US air space shut down completely.
- A town extreme southwest Tennessee, a suburb of Memphis. Population, 32, 893.
- Moreover, as a Jew living in a town that declared itself the buckle of the Bible Belt (Memphis boasted more churches than gas stations), I was always aware of my outsider status.
- He also was close to attracting Williams, who visited only Memphis and Arizona after decommitting from Southern California following coach Tim Floyd's resignation. SI.com
- George Jones once drove around Memphis for a week, high on gak, and talking to a lifesize cut-out of Elvis Presley.
- A Memphis institution in the 1960s and 1970s, the label nurtured and fostered the original generation of soul musicians. Raw Copy: A Week To Remember In Memphis
