Sample Sentences for
West Bank
(editor-reviewed)

West Bank as in:  of the Jordan River

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    TERRY AHWAL was born in the West Bank city of Ramallah, and now lives with her family near Detroit.  (source)
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    A client on the West Bank wanted a bathroom repainted.†  (source)
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    And still another wave fled their villages in the West Bank after the Zionist conquest of 1967.  (source)
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    In this context, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank seems to her to be absolutely immoral.  (source)
    West Bank = a disputed area between Israel and Jordan on the west bank of the Jordan river that includes East Jerusalem and is populated largely by Palestinians
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    Zeitoun headed to the West Bank to get a look at the tangerine bathroom.†  (source)
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    The old hotel in Ma'ale Hahamisha was less than a mile from the 1967 border, and from its terrace restaurant it was possible to see the orderly yellow lights of Jewish settlements spilling down the hillside into the West Bank.  (source)
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    She therefore joined an organization called Machsom Watch, whose volunteer women drive to military checkpoints in the West Bank daily.  (source)
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    With a flurry of warnings and arm movements, Kathy herded the girls and their gear into the minivan and headed across the Mississippi to the West Bank.†  (source)
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    And instead of heading west toward Tel Aviv and King Saul Boulevard, it skirted the gray Ottoman walls of the Old City and spilled down the slopes of the Judean Hills, into the unforgiving flatlands of the West Bank.  (source)
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    Moral or not, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank is a fact of life, as is the threat of terrorism.  (source)
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    When they returned from Hunt, they stayed for two days on Adnan's floor in Baton Rouge, then moved into the studio apartment of their rental unit on Tita Street, on New Orleans' West Bank.†  (source)
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    A few miles before Jericho was the turnoff for the Allenby Bridge, the historic crossing between the West Bank and the British-created Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.  (source)
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    Zeitoun bought a new van and drives through the city, through Uptown, the Garden District, the French Quarter, Lakeview, the West Bank, Broadmoor, Metairie, Gentilly, the Lower Ninth, Mirabeau Gardens—and every time he sees a home under construction, no matter who's doing it, he smiles.†  (source)
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    Two days later, halfway there, he arrived in heavy rain at the beaver ponds that blocked access to the west bank of the Teklanika River.  (source)
    west bank = the west bank of any river
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    When Lord Tywin gets word that we've come south, he'll march north to engage our main host, leaving our riders free to hurry down the west bank to Riverrun.  (source)
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    I was on the west bank.  (source)
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    Two others were found in an alley on the west bank of the city, on the surface unrelated murders, except for the fourth victim.  (source)
    west bank = the west bank of any river
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    He found that he was lying, well wrapped, under tall grey-skinned trees in a quiet corner of the woodlands on the west bank of the Great River, Anduin.  (source)
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    The setting sun gilded the terraces on the east bank but cast the west bank into dark blue shadow.  (source)
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    Once over the Passaic, they pushed on another twenty miles down the west bank of the river to the little port town of Newark.  (source)
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    Ten miles up and down the river, on the west bank, had been covered by some one of Hudnall's outfit.  (source)
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    'To the very last moment, till the full day came upon them with a spring, the fires on the west bank blazed bright and clear; and then Brown saw in a knot of coloured figures motionless between the advanced houses a man in European clothes, in a helmet, all white.  (source)
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    The west bank of the Red Fork is higher than the east, my lady, and well wooded.  (source)
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    They would travel the Post Road west across Massachusetts as far as Springfield on the Connecticut River, there cross by ferry and swing south along the west bank, down the valley into Connecticut.  (source)
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    At length Jett traveled two days southward and then crossed the stream to its west bank.  (source)
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    From the far end of the Long Bridge, it was only a short walk through the teeming waterfront districts of the west bank, down torchlit streets crowded with sailors, slaves, and drunken merrymakers.  (source)
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