Kenosha

[ kuh-noh-shuh ]

noun

1. a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.

Example Sentences

Police said that Kizer travelled from Milwaukee to Volar's home in Kenosha in June 2018 armed with a gun.

From BBC

In the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, in Kenosha, Wis., the Milwaukee Bucks refused to come out of the locker room for their scheduled playoff game against the Orlando Magic on Aug. 26, 2020.

From Los Angeles Times

“Oh, absolutely, we see them on every channel, and all over the internet of course,” Marjean Stern, 79, a retiree from Kenosha, Wis., said of the videos of Mr. Biden.

From New York Times

He holds events with Kyle Rittenhouse, who at 17 killed two men at a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was acquitted on charges of homicide in 2021, and has since become a celebrity among very online right-wingers.

From Slate

A White House fact sheet released in the summer of 2020 highlighted grants for law enforcement to address the protests in Kenosha, Wis., after the shooting of Jacob Blake, the deployment of federal agents “to save the courthouse in Portland from rioters” and an executive order proposing harsher penalties for destroying federal monuments.

From New York Times