Sentence examples for philly from inspiring English sources

The word 'philly' is a slang term primarily used in American English
It is most commonly used as an abbreviation for Philadelphia, the largest city in the state of Pennsylvania. Example: "I'm headed to Philly this weekend to catch a Phillies game with some friends."

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philly

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Philadelphia.

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I often see him when he walks down the road at lunchtime to get his cheese philly steak.

Timberlake takes back the night with the electrofunk of "Sexyback" and the 21st century Philly of "Suit & Tie", reminding you that, at his best, this guy is unbeatable.

Philly fans, they used to say, would boo cancer patients; now it turns out that Philly fans think that cancer patients get cancer because someone is shooting ray guns at them from Neptune.

As expected, nothing was cheap (Philly cheesesteak, $10.75; citrus slaw, $6), but the menu boards helpfully listed the number of calories in each item, and a winner emerged in the calories-per-dollar statistic: Moe's Billy Barou Nachos, which can be found on the concourse of the upper deck.

KC will probably need him against the Union with a physical forward like Conor Casey playing for Philly.

Italian Market, South Philly; 152 West Girard Avenue, North Philly, paesanosphillystyle.com.com

Gina Zippilli, The Inferno, Dallas: Big story would probably be the Philly game last week.

(I'd spend the next six weeks bemoaning the arbitrary nature of video review. To wit, if the basket hadn't occurred right before a TV timeout, would the refs had conferred the replay?) I immediately got that disgusting feeling in my stomach typically reserved for Philly sports teams in big moments.

Little wonder then there are thousands of cheese-steak restaurants in Philadelphia.The Philly cheese steak is serious business.

Although Philly is still a Democratic stronghold, the suburbs of the city are a battleground.

New Orleans has gumbo, New England clam chowder and Buffalo its wings, but no American dish is as closely identified with its hometown as the Philly cheese steak.

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