Herndon

[ hurn-duhn ]

noun

1. William Henry, 1818–91, U.S. law partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln.
2. a town in NE Virginia.

Example Sentences

As historians Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray have shown, children’s apprenticeship experiences correlated closely with their families’ affluence: poorer and nonwhite children—children like Jacob, Hetty, and John Henry—were often used as mere menials and servants.

From Slate

Naval Academy are taking part in the annual Herndon Monument Climb on Wednesday, a ritual that marks the end of their plebe year and some say foreshadows career success.

From Seattle Times

Kandula, then 19, flew from St. Louis to Washington, D.C., and rented the truck in Herndon, Virginia, before crashing it into the barriers on May 22, 2023.

From Seattle Times

In an email sent last month and obtained by The Associated Press, DeBoard told Lee, “I just found out that the academy graduation certificates were signed by you in some other language, not in English. This is unacceptable for my agency. I don’t want our Herndon officers to receive these and I am requesting that they are issued certificates signed in English, the language that they are expected to use as an officer.”

From Seattle Times

On March 18, the county’s deputy executive for safety and security, Thomas Arnold, wrote to DeBoard informing her that the county was terminating Herndon’s affiliation with the academy.

From Seattle Times