A town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River

Usage examples of dubuque.

That’s like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

The Dubuque meat packer who married his mother and adopted him had sold his business to the Shah of Brat­puhr shortly before he died, and had been paid in gold bricks deposited in a bank in Switzerland.

Unable to regain hydraulics, Captain Delbaugh requested and received permission from United's dispatcher and from Chicago to divert from O'Hare to the nearest major airport, which was Dubuque, Iowa.

Other passengers—some so untouched by the experience that they appeared freshly showered and dressed, others filthy and disheveled—stood alone or in small groups, waiting for the minibuses that would take them to the Dubuque terminal, chattering nervously or stunned into silence.

But Dubuque was not exactly the hub of the universe, and all seats to anywhere in southern California were already booked.

She had eaten breakfast at the airport in Dubuque, surprised that her appetite had not been suppressed forever by the macabre images burned into her mind at the crash scene.

Pat Conley was telegraphed for, and arrived at Dubuque on February 4, accompanied by Mr.

Hoffman, Coroner of Dubuque, who found the old clothes in the back yard of the local morgue.

A few miles below Dubuque is the Tete de Mort-- Death’s-head rock, or bluff--to the top of which the French drove a band of Indians, in early times, and cooped them up there, with death for a certainty, and only the manner of it matter of choice--to starve, or jump off and kill themselves.

Shakespeare bought a tin washing-dish, Dubuque a towel, and Pennsylvania a brick of soap.

The Dubuque meat packer who married his mother and adopted him had sold his business to the Shah of Brat­.