yorker

Example Sentences

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He was a true New Yorker, rarely fooled.

From Literature

After dropping out of residency, Attia worked as a credit risk consultant for McKinsey & Company, and later at an energy company, as a profile of him in the New Yorker notes.

From Slate

When John Hersey’s account “Hiroshima” filled an entire issue of the New Yorker in 1946, following six survivors around Hiroshima and what they saw in the moment of the explosion and then afterward, Albert Einstein bought 1,000 copies and started passing them out to everybody he could think of, because he thought, this was clearly an atrocity, and this is something that we really need to discourage people from ever, ever doing again.

From Salon

To find out, I spoke with Dan Bennette, a 38-year-old aviation professional and lifelong New Yorker who lives in Queens and first reported for duty during the January storm.

From Slate

The tall paceman bowled Brook with a yorker next ball, but did not celebrate wildly -- instead he immediately went to congratulate the England captain in a superb show of cricket sportmanship.

From Barron's