Olean
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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About two weeks after the investigation began, Mowery sent Ka-Bar Knives Inc., located in Olean, New York, a search warrant for the sales of six models of their knives, plus the leather sheath.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2023
Authorities had even searched waterways to see if he had fallen into the Allegheny River, the Olean Times Herald reported.
From Fox News • May 20, 2021
The abandoned well lies in the forests of Olean, New York, which was an oil boomtown at the turn of the 20th century.
From Reuters • Jun. 16, 2020
After the Olean Times Herald covered the project, Dittman got a call from another elderly man, now blind, who had searched as well.
From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2018
The son of Italian immigrants, he had come into the world in Olean, New York, on January 26, 1917, eleven and a half pounds of baby under black hair as coarse as barbed wire.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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