El Paso

[ el pas-oh ]

noun

1. a city in W Texas, on the Rio Grande.

El Paso

/ ɛl ˈpæsəʊ /

noun

1. a city in W Texas, on the Rio Grande opposite Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Pop: 584 113 (2003 est)

El Paso

1. City in Texas on the border between Mexico and the United States.

Example Sentences

Back in 2018, I spoke with Josiah Heyman, the director of the Center for Interamerican and Border Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso, who had been writing about ports of entry for more than a decade.

From Voice of San Diego

Even though Lewis Barbecue is located in South Carolina, the shop is known for its Central-Texas-style barbecue, pulling influence from Lewis’s upbringing in El Paso, Texas.

From Eater

The dismantling of that office over several years overlapped with the years of attacks in Pittsburgh and Poway and El Paso…tied to these movements we’ve seen commit violence over the last week.

From Time

I could not be more excited for the future of investigative journalism in a state that has so many striking stories to tell, from El Paso to Beaumont.

From ProPublica

I’m a first-generation immigrant, born in Ciudad Juárez and raised across the border in El Paso, in a middle-class family.

From ProPublica

So, Schmidt followed the gold rush to the El Paso mountains and claimed an area of mining land.

From The Daily Beast

The El Paso brand of deterrence is just as much directed at smugglers as immigrants, if not more so.

From The Daily Beast

Neither the Indian consulate nor a representative from ICE in El Paso responded to requests for comment on this story.

From The Daily Beast

Immigration judges in El Paso have among the lowest rates of asylum approval in the country.

From The Daily Beast

“In El Paso, the policy is to lock everybody up and throw away the key,” he says.

From The Daily Beast

Fitted out by them, he started at once to return to El Paso; to take up the unending search anew.

From Project Gutenberg

At night, however, he came back in the second-hand motor-car which he had got at a bargain price in El Paso, and drove himself.

From Project Gutenberg

Having got everything ready for the journey, we bade adieu to El Paso, and turned our faces eastward.

From Project Gutenberg

A swift ride brought him into El Paso, then called Franklin, a distance of fifty-six miles, before midnight.

From Project Gutenberg

A few days out of El Paso, the boys ran out of water, and were puzzled as to which way to ride.

From Project Gutenberg