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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of extreme southwest Indiana on the Ohio River and the Kentucky border. It grew as a port in the 1800s.

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  • noun a city in southwestern Indiana on the Ohio River

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Examples

  • EVANSVILLE - With spring still a month away (33 days, actually), Evansville already has received more snow - 15.3 inches - than it usually does in the entire winter season.

    courierpress.com Stories 2010

  • EVANSVILLE -- Francis Xavier St.fleth, passed away, surrounded by his family, on Good Friday, April 2, 2010, at St. Mary's Hospital in Evansville.

    courierpress.com Stories 2010

  • EVANSVILLE - An Evansville motorist was taken to a local hospital for injuries suffered early this morning when his small pickup truck collided with a snowplow at 9900 N.

    courierpress.com Stories 2010

  • EVANSVILLE - In the negotiations over the future of Whirlpool's Evansville site, one of the biggest questions is who will have to clean up pollutants left behind in the soil.

    courierpress.com Stories Dan Shaw 2010

  • EVANSVILLE - A snowstorm that officials had predicted could drop 3 to 5 inches of snow on Evansville wound up leaving just over 2 inches this morning, with heavier amounts reported south of the Ohio River in the Owensboro and Madisonville, Ky., areas.

    courierpress.com Stories Rich Davis 2010

  • EVANSVILLE - An Evansville motorist was taken to a local hospital for injuries suffered early this morning when his small pickup truck collided with a snowplow at 9900 N.

    courierpress.com Stories 2010

  • EVANSVILLE - An Evansville motorist was taken to a local hospital for injuries suffered early this morning when his small pickup truck collided with a snowplow at 9900 N.

    courierpress.com Stories 2010

  • EVANSVILLE - In her freshman - and only - year at Ball State University in 1996, Evansville native Sara Robb Rhoades began to combat her self-inflicted social isolation ( "I wasn't a party girl," she explains) by painting designs on glass bottles retrieved from trash baskets.

    courierpress.com Stories 2010

  • EVANSVILLE - An Evansville motorist was taken to a local hospital for injuries suffered early this morning when his small pickup truck collided with a snowplow at 9900 N.

    courierpress.com Stories 2010

  • EVANSVILLE - In the negotiations over the future of Whirlpool's Evansville site, one of the biggest questions is who will have to clean up pollutants left behind in the soil.

    courierpress.com Stories Dan Shaw 2010

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