"town" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the bayou town of Thibodaux, 60 miles west of New Orleans, the presence of more than 1,000 evacuees at Nicholls State University has caused quite a stir, prompting high-ranking officials to plead with residents.
- Not so the movie, which goes on and on, largely due to a smiling stranger, Doug Blackwell (David Morrissey), who brings Katherine news of strange doings in a secluded bayou town called Haven.
- Much of the town is designed in a French style like many bayou towns.
- Louisiana also has small bayou towns, swamps and marshes with abundant wildlife, and vast areas of rich farmland.
- A morning update on the Web site said The Times-Picayune was evacuating its building in New Orleans and that staff members were heading for Houma, a bayou town about 60 miles to the west.
- For children growing up in this bayou town, the cultural imperative is clear: Don't set up housekeeping where you have to call your mama long distance.
- Nathan Williams, who leads the Zydeco Cha-Chas, represents zydeco's younger generation - he's 26 years old, from the bayou town of St. Martinville, La. "When I first started playing, my wife didn't like it," he said.
- By 6:30 p.m. or so on Dec. 21, most everyone at the Broke Spoke and Dolly's Quick Stop, as well as the whole of this bayou town, knew that Big Irv, 58, was gone for good.
- The police had not yet set up roadblocks on Highway 27 to keep evacuees from returning to the flooded bayou towns, the first outposts on the Gulf of Mexico to confront the eye wall of the storm.
- He held hearings in small bayou towns devastated by the oil boom and bust, and made enemies in the tall buildings in New Orleans.
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