Sentence examples for erie from inspiring English sources

In 1986 he escaped from the Erie county jail by scaling a fence.

The slogan "New York, Empire City" reflected a time after the completion of the Erie Canal in the 1820s, when goods were shipped into New York's port and then taken further west to Ohio by barge.

This is 13km from a nuclear power station at North Perry, on Lake Erie.

You could say the same thing about almost any manufacturing-based, rust-belt city: Flint, Buffalo, Erie, Youngstown, Cleveland.

The plan to open an applied sciences university campus in New York City, reckons Seth Pinsky, who heads New York's Economic Development Corporation, is an "Erie Canal moment".The city's embrace of high-tech has already begun.

Gerard Koeppel, a journalist, shows a scholarly fascination for the precise details of the legislative progress of the Erie Canal, the waterway that, in 1825, joined the Great Lakes to the Hudson river and so to the Atlantic ocean at New York City.

Precipitation ranges from 32 to 45 inches (810 to 1,140 mm) a year, with the Catskills receiving the greatest amount, while the Erie-Ontario Lowlands receive the least.

Twenty-foot waves from Lake Erie crashed onto the city's main commuter artery, forcing its closure.The full economic cost of Sandy will not be known for years.

There was wild talk that Chinese submarines would lurk offshore or that Chinese firms would foul Lake Erie.

A dead man writes of his happy childhood on a farm, Of riding on a balloon over Lake Erie...There are repeated hauntings and strange shadowings in Mr Simic's poems.

After it was reorganized in 1899, it grew further, reaching Cleveland, Ohio, and Lake Erie in 1901.