Braddock

[ brad-uhk ]

noun

1. Edward, 1695–1755, British general in America.
2. a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh: the site of General Braddock's defeat by the French and Indians 1755.

Example Sentences

Kurt Braddock, an assistant professor of public communication at American University who researches political violence, told the wire service that Biden's critique of Trump is a "false equivalence" to the violent rhetoric and threats deployed by right-wing Trump supporters against election workers, judges and other officials.

From Salon

Born in 1982 in the industrial town of Braddock, Pa., a short distance from Pittsburgh and the site of Andrew Carnegie’s first steel mill, she picked up a camera in her teens.

From New York Times

By that point Braddock’s days of promise and prosperity were long past, with a predominantly African American remnant population left stranded.

From New York Times

The photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier creating a self-portrait in Braddock, Pa., her hometown, at the site of a footbridge over the railroad.

From New York Times

A continuous high-pitched din — a bit whirring, a bit crunching — echoed over the Bottom, the residential sliver of Braddock, Pa., nearest to the industrial plants and the Monongahela River.

From New York Times