Citations:Pacific Northwesterner

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English citations of Pacific Northwesterner

Noun: "a resident of the Pacific Northwest region of North America"[edit]

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  • 1991 — Mary Daheim, Legs Benedict, Avon Books (1999), →ISBN, page 47:
    Maybe it was the weather: As a native Pacific Northwesterner, rain during the fall, winter, and early spring didn't bother her.
  • 1995 — Jack Ohman, Fishing Bass-Ackwards: Coming Down the Pike With Off-The-Walleye Humor, Willow Creek Press (1995), →ISBN, page 118:
    So when a Pacific Northwesterner tells me about his fantastic steelhead fishing, I nod graciously and at all the appropriate moments, but secretly know ing[sic] that the guy is snowing me.
  • 1996 — Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes, The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History (Revised and Enlarged Edition), University of Nebraska Press (1996), →ISBN, page 6:
    Fundamental to a Pacific Northwesterner's sense of place is the awareness that much of the region remains uninhabited or only lightly populated.
  • 2001 — Patricia K. Lichen, Passionate Slugs and Hollywood Frogs: An Uncommon Field Guide to Northwest Backyards, Sasquatch Books (2001), →ISBN, page 121:
    Shaken and upset, Esther did what any Pacific Northwesterner would: she drove directly to a coffee shop and ordered a latte.
  • 2003 — Les Parrott & Neil Clark Warren, Love the Life You Live: 3 Secrets to Feeling Good — Deep Down in Your Soul, Tyndale House Publishers (2003), →ISBN, page xi:
    On a sunny day in Seattle, one of those pristine days when every Pacific Northwesterner forgives the rain for falling so much, []
  • 2005 — Merle Barbara Metcalfe, Freeloaders, AuthorHouse (2005), →ISBN, page 15:
    Karen and Lucy drank in the Art Museum exhibit, a flamboyant show of colorful blown glass in monumental arrangements by Dale Chihuly, another Pacific Northwesterner.
  • 2006 — Eric Peterson, Ramble: A Field Guide to the U.S.A., speck press (2006), →ISBN, page 28:
    Pacific Northwesterners, sometimes called Cascadians, are so laid back that it's hard to tell if anyone actually works up here.
  • 2007 — J.B. MacKinnon & Alisa Smith, Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally, Harmony Books (2007), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    The environmental historian Joseph E. Taylor III once wrote that Pacific Northwesterners have been predicting the imminent demise of their salmon runs for 125 years.