Home Town

He played for his home-town IPL team, the Kolkata Knight Riders, in the previous three seasons of the league, captaining them in the first and third editions. ❋ Richard Lord (2011)

Mr. Davies says his home-town of Melbourne still has a thriving big-band scene. ❋ Tom Nolan (2011)

We also talked about Joe Hill, a union organizer killed in my home-town. ❋ Roseanne Barr (2011)

His first public appearance was with with Mr. Monroe himself, in Martha, Tennessee, when Mr. Monroe, at the pleadings of the home-town crowd, literally lifted Mr. Skaggs onto the stage and let him do his stuff, which apparently was pretty remarkable. ❋ Daniel Menaker (2011)

Instead it was the French who rubbed up the Irish referee, George Clancy, the wrong way at scrum-time – "I don't want to say it was a home-town referee but it was almost like that," said Yachvili – while Corbisiero did a splendid job of plugging the gap left by Andrew Sheridan's premature departure with a calf injury. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Just one stop this weekend, officials said, was bound to be on Obama's calendar: a home-town visit to Chicago, to campaign for the candidate seeking the Senate seat the president once held. ❋ Anne E. Kornblut (2010)

The home-town team was the Columbus Clippers and, it being the summer of the major league strike, we even got to see (gasp!) the famous chicken, who was touring the minor league ball parks. ❋ Cath@VWXYNot? (2009)

I had learned how to do this from the Mormon contingent in my home-town. ❋ Roseanne Barr (2011)

However, we understand Cesc's desire to move to his home-town club and have now accepted an offer from Barcelona. ❋ Unknown (2011)

These 87 new members - who otherwise might have become foot soldiers for party bosses, or jittery pawns of their home-town tea party groups - have instead coalesced into a bloc with its own ideas and a headstrong sense of its muscle. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Get your home-town paper to publicly call you a moron and accuse you of accepting bribes/payoffs from Wall Street?? ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was known as “Jimmy” in his home-town, but was professionally called “Catfish,” a nickname invented by Charlie Finley, the owner of the Kansas City, then Oakland, Athletics, for whom he pitched between 1965 to 1974. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They're using Congress's August recess to heckle Democratic representatives when they meet with their constituents, stage erszatz local anti-universal health rallies, and fill home-town media with carefully-crafted, market-tested messages demonizing healthcare reform. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Argentina has a new home-town hero in Alejandro Patronelli, who won the quad race despite a broken hand. ❋ Shane Romig (2011)

[My home] town is ([insert] boring place here) and I [miss] it dearly. ❋ Clymo (2010)

[Hey Pete], when I go back to [Leeds] I'm gonna meet my Home Town [Hunny] ❋ Sl1ckm4n (2010)

[Home town rebuilders],[llc] really came through for our family when a [hail storm] hit our roof they worked directly with our insurance company and got us the maximum amount our policy allowed! ❋ HTRLLC1979 (2016)

That [photographer] is a [home-town tourist], that’s why there’s [so much pain] in her photos. ❋ Iamthepuma (2019)

[Hank] is a home town hero ❋ Xcfvbnhjkjhgtfredszxcvbhnjklki (2023)

I'm going to home this weekend I hope [my home] [town hero] Samantha is there so we can [slam] ❋ Jkirby2 (2011)