Kalamazoo

[ kal-uh-muh-zoo ]

/ ˌkæl ə məˈzu /

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noun

a city in SW Michigan.

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How to use Kalamazoo in a sentence

In Kalamazoo, Michigan—not far from one the main sites where Pfizer is frantically manufacturing vaccines—they plan to stay virtual through the end of the school year.
Why reopening US schools is so complicated|Lindsay Muscato|March 5, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Pfizer is manufacturing its vaccines in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
See how COVID-19 vaccines will get to your neighborhood|By Bahar Aliakbarian/The Conversation|December 9, 2020|Popular-Science
A bedroom community for some, residents may drive into nearby Kalamazoo for employment.
A key county in Michigan has voted for election winners since 1980. Here’s how swing voters there are feeling now|Brett Haensel|November 2, 2020|Fortune
Now, I’m a single mom living just outside Kalamazoo with my teenage son and daughter.
I’m a Michigander who’s always voted Republican. But the President has failed us|jakemeth|November 1, 2020|Fortune

I grew up in Kalamazoo and spent my summers on Lake Michigan.
I’m a Michigander who’s always voted Republican. But the President has failed us|jakemeth|November 1, 2020|Fortune
In his novel Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Peter DeVries wrote, “There is nothing like calamity to make us forget our troubles.”
Senseless. Evil. Silver Linings. Our Misguided Terms of Terror.|William Giraldi|April 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He teaches at Northwestern University and lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Respect the Midwest!|Anna Clark|January 30, 2011|DAILY BEAST
This was the classic complaint of the innocents abroad of other days, whether they hailed from Kensington or Kalamazoo.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car|Francis Miltoun
Here, certainly, Kalamazoo is baffled and must halt and bite its pen.
Hints to Pilgrims|Charles Stephen Brooks
They cussed the Cunard Company from hell to breakfast out Kalamazoo way for that scandalous oversight.
Walking Shadows|Alfred Noyes
In this mill was sawed the lumber to build the first store at Bronson, now Kalamazoo.
Pioneer Day Exercises|(Schoolcraft, Michigan) Ladies' Library Association
So at the railroad station we are faced with the sign, "Kalamazoo, the home of celery."
The Farmer and His Community|Dwight Sanderson

British Dictionary definitions for Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo

/ (ˌkæləməˈzuː) /

noun

a city in SW Michigan, midway between Detroit and Chicago: aircraft, missile parts. Pop: 75 312 (2003 est)

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