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Porto Rico

NOUN
  1. the smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean
  2. a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico

How To Use Porto Rico In A Sentence

  • Stew the apples in a little water till they become a pulp, placing with them half a dozen cloves and half a dozen strips of the yellow part only of the outside of the rind of a _fresh_ lemon of the size and thickness of the thumb-nail; sweeten with brown sugar, that known as Porto Rico being the most economical. Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet
  • Leaving with his daily afternoon coffee fix, Porto Rico customer Devin Nee , 25 years old, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, said he had noticed the increase, but for good coffee, it's worth it. Coffee's Jolt Hits the Wallet First
  • Porto Rico, 258 U.S. 298, 305 (1922) (emphasis added). The Volokh Conspiracy » Would Sotomayor be the First Hispanic Justice?
  • Right now, 27 states, including D.C. and also Porto Rico, fall into that high unemployment category. CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2009
  • The island of Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) is the most easterly of the Greater Antilles group of the West Indies island chain.
  • S. 138, that neither the Philippines nor Porto Rico was territory which had been incorporated in the Union or become a part of the United States, as distinguished from merely belonging to it . . . The Volokh Conspiracy » Would Sotomayor be the First Hispanic Justice?
  • Don Francisco Colombo, who with an armada of twenty galleons sailed in January 1599 to protect Porto Rico from the English. The Founder of New France : A chronicle of Champlain
  • Outbreak and suppression of plague in Porto Rico: An account of the course of the epidemic and the measures employed for its suppression by the United States Public Health Service by Richard Henry Creel OpEdNews - Quicklink: Get the Government off our Backs!
  • But early next morning, when they approached the shore, the Spanish _alcaide_, Francisco de Tapia, commanded a gun to be fired at the ship from the castle; whereupon the English, seeing the reception accorded them, sailed back to Porto Rico, there obtained some provisions in exchange for pewter and cloth, and departed for Europe, The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
  • If she can say this about Porto Rico, she may consider saying the same about Wales, right! More sillyness =Good old Tommy Cooper
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