Boston

Example Sentences

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Franklin fled servitude in Boston and established himself in Philadelphia as an independent printer—and eventually as the philosopher-statesman-Founder we know.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

When Germany fans woke up on Tuesday morning, they surely felt embarrassed about what happened in Boston against Paraguay.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

Coming upon the Boston Tea Party, it’s inevitable he’ll whine about not being invited.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026

Here, he realizes a triptych of vivid musical postcards recalling the American past: “The Saint-Gaudens in Boston Common,” a hazy conjuring of Civil War ghosts embodied by a memorial to Col.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

For four months of the year he attended to patients in Boston at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and lived as a bachelor in a grubby church rectory in a poor neighborhood called Roxbury.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French