Sample Sentences for
Holland
(editor-reviewed)

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    In short, Holland looked like Indianapolis, only with smaller cars.  (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands
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    Louis, a native of Holland, a well-known violinist.  (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
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    "In Holland, too," Mama added from across the room, "and Belgium and France."  (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
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    Usually it was fog in January in Holland, dank, chill, and gray.  (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
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    No, Rabbi, six million in Poland and Germany and Holland and France and ...  (source)
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    His little Navy was scattered all over after the Germans took Holland.  (source)
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    Holland claimed much of its land from the sea, you know.  (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
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    At the beginning of the war, the Germans had taken the fight to France, to Belgium, to Holland, to Russia.  (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
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    Piece by piece he was assembling the costly treasures for its furnishing — fine hand-turned bedsteads and chests and chairs from the skilled Wethersfield joiner, Peter Blinn, glossy pewter plates and a set of silver spoons from Boston, real china bowls of blue and white Delft from Holland.  (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
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    In June 2007, after two weeks with his family, Adam was off again, this time to Holland for training in specialized fighting techniques.  (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
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    It was an anniversary gift from her husband, Harvey, now manning a tank gun in Holland.  (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
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    One woman phoned from Holland to say she and her husband had swum around the room together.  (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
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    We can buy fresh tomatoes in the middle of the winter, flown in from Israel or Holland or Mexico.  (source)
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    What I'd do, I figured, I'd go down to the Holland Tunnel and bum a ride, and then I'd bum another one, and another one, and another one, and in a few days I'd be somewhere out West where it was very pretty and sunny and where nobody'd know me and I'd get a job.  (source)
    Holland = tunnel connecting New York City to Jersey City
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    My pallbearers are: Harvey Moss, Duane Thomas, Steve Holland, Billy Bowles, Mike Mills, and Walter Robinson.  (source)
    Holland = a person's name
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    Finally I came across a woman named Frances Holland who told me about two girls who befriended her when she was a new student in the seventh grade at Thomas Jefferson Junior High: Ruth Shilsky and Frances Moody.  (source)
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    There was an institution in my day called a 'sketching club'—mixed sexes" (snuffle), "bicycles" (snuffle), "pepper-and-salt knickerbockers, holland umbrellas, and, it was popularly thought, free love" (snuffle), "such a lot of nonsense.  (source)
    holland = a type of umbrella
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    Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.  (source)
    holland = a type of strong, plain-weave linen fabric
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    "Are you going to tell me now where we're going?" she asked when we exited the Holland Tunnel.  (source)
    Holland = a tunnel that connects New York City to Jersey City
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    The Holland Tunnel.  (source)
    Holland = a tunnel connecting New York City with Jersey City
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    Around noon, the models arrived and began to get ready in the store that had been Holland Farms Cheeses and Gifts until it had just recently gone out of business.  (source)
    Holland = part of a company name
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    The increasing river of traffic for New York carried me along, and suddenly there was the welcoming maw of the Holland Tunnel and at the other end home.  (source)
    Holland = a tunnel connecting New York City and Jersey City
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    Another evening, while driving back through Manhattan from a trauma conference in New Jersey, a streetwalker caught my eye as she stepped out from under an awning near the Holland Tunnel.  (source)
    Holland = a tunnel that connects New York City to Jersey City
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    His old brown holland was good enough when he stayed at home.  (source)
    holland = a type of strong, plain-weave linen fabric
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    A handsome carriage, drawn by a sleek pair of New Holland horses, carried Phileas Fogg and Aouda into the midst of rows of palms with brilliant foliage, and of clove-trees, whereof the cloves form the heart of a half-open flower.  (source)
    Holland = a type of horse
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    The windows were large and easily opened, with the best catches and cords, and Holland roller-shades guaranteed not to crack.  (source)
    Holland = a type of shade
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