Shreveport

[ shreev-pawrt, -pohrt ]

/ ˈʃrivˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt /

a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River.

Example sentences from the Web for shreveport

The traveling show arrived in Shreveport at 7:30 in the morning after an all-night drive.

How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ |Peter Guralnick |December 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In January, the Shreveport Times reported that McAllister said that his job "sucks [and] it ain't no fun."

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In Shreveport, La., a veteran overdoses on morphine while housed in a locked VA psychiatric unit.

VA Pays $200 Million for Nearly 1,000 Veterans’ Wrongful Deaths |Aaron Glantz |April 3, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
They met when they were living in Shreveport, La., in the mid-1990s, and by 1997 they were living together.

Gay, Southern, and Loving It |Constantino Diaz-Duran |March 27, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

The goings-on of the Shreveport werewolf pack and Alcide (Joe Manganiello)?

‘True Blood’ Season 5: Has HBO’s Vampire Drama Lost Its Bite? |Jace Lacob |June 8, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Then it was that a great wail of mortal distress rose from Shreveport—a call for help from one end of the land to another.

Angel Agnes |Wesley Bradshaw
To Agnes Arnold going into Shreveport, the emotions must have been very much like yours in front of that battery.

Angel Agnes |Wesley Bradshaw
While we were in Shreveport my regiment was exchanged, and marched through on its way home.

The Bright Side of Prison Life |Samuel A. Swiggett
The march to Shreveport occupied about a week, and attempts to escape were numerous.

The Bright Side of Prison Life |Samuel A. Swiggett
And therefore, after a short consideration, she gave the required consent to her daughter Agnes, to go to Shreveport as a nurse.

Angel Agnes |Wesley Bradshaw

Shreveport

/ (ˈʃriːvˌpɔːt) /

a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River: centre of an oil and natural-gas region. Pop: 198 364 (2003 est)