Alton
Americannoun
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a city in southwestern Illinois.
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a first name.
Example Sentences
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Under the plan, visitors to places like Alton Towers, Chessington World of Adventures and Legoland Windsor this half-term who only had "difficulty with crowds" would no longer have qualified.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
Emma Camp, 38, from Wolverhampton enjoys visits to Alton Towers and Thorpe Park, but gets anxiety in large crowds.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
Over the years, I expanded my teacher roster to include Nigella Lawson, Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, Alton Brown and others, each of whom diversified my skillset.
From Salon • Jan. 30, 2026
The first lawsuit was brought in May 2024 against Simmons Hanly Conroy, an Alton, Ill., firm JM Eagle says filed more than 430 cases against it since 2001.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026
There are posters of Trayvon Martin and Philando Castile and Alton Sterling and Michael Brown and Tamir Rice and Stephon Clark, and a bunch more people who lost their lives.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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