Sample Sentences for
Florence
(editor-reviewed)

Florence as in: the city

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    Study-abroad programs tend to consist of herds of students visiting Oxford or Florence or Paris.  (source)
    Florence = city in central Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance
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    The scene is laid in Florence.  (source)
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    — when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!†  (source)
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    I know only the Foas of Rome and Florence.†  (source)
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    He would have known them if he bumped into them on the streets of Florence at the height of the season.†  (source)
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    One year when I was young, the wild grapes were so abundant in the old Ruby Florence field that they filled all of our tubs and buckets with rich, purple-red fruit.†  (source)
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    He's more beautiful than the picture of a young Greek god in our history books, or the statue of David in Florence, Italy.†  (source)
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    We could have circled over Miletus and Athens, Jerusalem and Alexandria, Rome and Florence, London and Paris, Jena and Heidelberg, Berlin and Copenhagen ....†  (source)
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    During our last year at Harding University, we spent the summer in a study-abroad program in Florence, Italy.†  (source)
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    Unable to be idle, she installed herself at a table outside St. Peter's to give advice to Japanese tourists; later, she became a tourist herself, in Florence, Padua, Assisi, Venice, Milan, and Paris.†  (source)
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    For ten long years I roved about, living first in one capital, then another: sometimes in St. Petersburg; oftener in Paris; occasionally in Rome, Naples, and Florence.†  (source)
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    They'd pile us on the bus and we'd spend the summer with my grandmother's sister, Aunt Florence.†  (source)
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    But Florence is still a bit too near the actual fighting to suit me.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    I wanted to see Abby and Bonnie and Clyde and Dexter and Eunice and Florence come into the world.  (source)
    Florence = a character in the story
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    Your grandmother surely's seen it—you go through town on Main Street till it turns into the highway to Florence.  (source)
    Florence = a local city in this novel
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    When I returned to Los Angeles, I moved to Boyle Heights and later to neighborhoods such as White Fence, Florence, South Pasa, La Colonia Watts and Gerahty Loma.  (source)
    Florence = a character in the story
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    D'you think Florence Mills would sing?  (source)
    Florence = a character in the story
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    Now Florence's mama hadn't a particle of taste, and Amy suffered deeply at having to wear a red instead of a blue bonnet, unbecoming gowns, and fussy aprons that did not fit.  (source)
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    Then Florence cleared his throat and spit a nice wad that beat Horse's by five feet at least.  (source)
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    She said her name was Florence Campbell and that she had to talk to me as soon as possible.  (source)
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    I'm down at the Dairy Queen in Florence, by a big shopping center.  (source)
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    Florence, who smoked the cigarette in the circus, had a hard cough.  (source)
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    She had a letter, too, from Florence, and it was perhaps this novelty that distracted her attention.  (source)
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    At the bend of River Road they caught up with Alice Cooksey riding Florence's Western Union bicycle.  (source)
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    A photograph of her father dominated the first page-a studio portrait taken in 1922, the year of his marriage to the young Indian rodeo rider Miss Florence Buckskin.  (source)
    Florence = the name of a person or other place
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    On recess from the Treason Trial, Frances Baard and Florence Matomela organized women to refuse passes in Port Elizabeth, their hometown.  (source)
    Florence = a character in the story
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