Connecticut town near New York City

Usage examples of stamford.

It was a kidnap-murder near Stamford, Connecticut, and nearly eight months went by before they collared the bastard, a real sleazebag pedophile with a long record of molestation, child porn, the works.

She takes lessons at a special dance school in Stamford and has even starred in some ballet productions.

She dances en pointe (that means on toe), she takes lessons at a special ballet school in Stamford, and she has danced lead parts in lots of productions before big audiences.

In exchange Farman had produced a dozen far-seers made by glass-blowers in Stamford: the lenses inferior in clarity, and scratched by grinding even with the finest sand and chalk, but proof that Arab skills could be matched in time.

Bostich is headquartered in New Haven, and yes, he does have jurisdiction over federal matters in Stamford.

Harry Harrison was born in Stamford, Connecticut, has made his home in Mexico and in several European countries over the years, and now lives in Ireland.

I said doubtfully, feeling that ignorance in a grown-up state was surely to be preferred to a return to Stamford and long division.

In short, it may be that in the simple English system it was possible to order an attacking battle, as at Stamford Bridge, or a defensive battle as at Hastings, and the individual soldiers would go on doing what they had been told until they died.

Shef meant the puny, slave-born stray who had risen to become Shef's steelmaster and the most respected smith among priests of the Way: though he would never leave the House of Wisdom in Stamford again, his nerve broken for ever by the terrors he had undergone in the North.

Stamford hit an easy bounce to the pitcher, and Clews put up a little Texas leaguer--all going out, one, two, three, on three pitched balls.

At Wethersfield they would leave the river for the road to New Haven, and from New Haven on, along the Connecticut shore—through Fairfield, Norwalk, Stamford, Greenwich—they would be riding the New York Post Road.

At Wethersfield they would leave the river for the road to New Haven, and from New Haven on, along the Connecticut shore--through Fairfield, Norwalk, Stamford, Greenwich--they would be riding the New York Post Road.