Seat of Kansas’s Shawnee County

Usage examples of topeka.

Except for the dull orange glow of Topeka eight miles to the north, the sky was purplish-black and full of stars.

Regardless of its international impact, an investigation with its focus in Topeka, Kansas, was not his idea of a cherry assignment.

Daddy can get a better job at the Goodyear plant in Topeka, but when I asked Daddy if that was true he just gave me a dirty look and went to get another Falstaff.

I pictured her sitting on a straight-backed chair in a police station in Topeka, her chopped auburn hair standing at attention, her violet eyes looking down her impossibly straight nose at the Authority who was trying to question her.

But all of his friends are here in Topeka, and his few remaining relatives live in Des Moines.

According to the most recent radio news report, the Kansas Highway Patrol believes that Oliver traveled south only a short distance, then doubled back and slipped into Topeka, where he is now supposedly hiding out.

Thursday, May 13, Grandmother left for Des Moines for a two-week visit with Uncle Mike, who was supposed to have come to Topeka for the funeral but who had missed it because the Greyhound bus bringing him had broken down.

What I did come up with, though, was the feeling that I would give anything to trade places with Edward White, to float in nothingness far from Topeka, Kansas.

Her obsession with Buddy Holly had flagged due to her depression at the death of Sam Cooke and her subsequent recovery as she discovered the Beatles, but one day while she was cataloging tapes, she came across an interview with Buddy Holly and the Crickets that had been recorded during a multiband tour stop in Topeka in 1957.

I could probably try it right here in Topeka, Kansas, if I wanted, because Ted at the station has hinted that he knows people over in Lawrence who can get him pretty much anything.

Mother and I remained in Topeka, waiting to see what could possibly happen in 1968 that had not happened already.

With the move to the house, my school district had changed, and instead of going to Topeka High, I wound up at a rural unified-district school.

Ringo left Topeka at the same time as you and followed you all the way here?

The campus was only fifty-five miles west of Topeka, but Mother seemed to think it was on the dark side of Neptune.

It would be our last time together until I came back to Topeka for a weekend visit.