Second-largest US state by area

Usage examples of texas.

He was on his way to Agarita Springs, Texas, and he would be up to no good when he got there.

Susan graduated from Agarita Springs High, was a quiet little music major at SMU, married her high school sweetheart, spoke with a Texas twang, and had never been out of the state.

If that schedule is carried through, the Alamo will be berthed in Matagorda Bay, the Republic of Texas, shortly before the presidential conventions begin.

Do you mean that the Alamo is going to float all the way from the Antarctic to Texas on ocean currents?

Arizona and New Mexico, but do you really think the Anglos in Texas are going to move away and give the state to you?

During an hour-long discussion, Santorum commented on a case before the Supreme Court involving a Texas antigay sodomy law.

This is almost as big an area as Texas, and surrounds the islands completely, ending sharply to the west, where Argentinian waters begin, over the Malvinas basin.

So neither Ritter nor Heger could have ridden in whooping like a Texas badman while shooting at street lamps.

Mostly it passed through countless miles of Texas coastal swamp that eventually transitioned to blackland prairie.

A particularly showy native flower of the Planet Texas, three inches in diameter when fully opened, the bloodflower exuded a liquid of the color and consistency of human blood when disturbed.

He was a wildcatter, worked for one of the big oil companies, and he dragged me off to West Texas and left me for months at a time in a drafty little single-wide trailer with nobody to talk to but an old bluetick hound.

I worked the El Fey with Texas Guinan, and I was doing a little bootlegging on the side, for Owney.

But hubris engendered his one fatal misstep: his attempt to change the Russian diet, mandating Texas Bar-B-Q in place of such staples as borsht and potato pancakes.

United States of America began to die, one hundred of the richest men and women in America were being bussed to various airports around the nation, all heading for one central location: a long-abandoned Air Force base in West Texas.

All her instruments agreed: She was in La Casita on Broadway in San Antonio, Texas, a city of a million-plus souls, few of whom seemed to like her very much.