Bridgeport

[ brij-pawrt, -pohrt ]

noun

1. a seaport in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.

Bridgeport

/ ˈbrɪdʒˌpɔːt /

noun

1. a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

A Bridgeport police officer who was a supervisor on Smith-Fields’ case has also since retired.

From Time

The Smith-Fields family has said that when they searched the home after her death, they recovered a used condom, a pill and bloody sheets—evidence, they allege, that the scene was never properly searched by the Bridgeport police department.

From Time

Buckeye Hot Springs, alongside the scenic Buckeye Creek, is a few miles down a side road from Bridgeport.

From Outside Online

If you’re heading south, there’s not much in the way of towns after Bridgeport for a stretch, so fill up on gas and load up on burgers and milkshakes at The Burger Barn, a walk-up window with patio seating and tasty waffle-cut sweet potato fries.

From Outside Online

Take the ten-mile detour off Highway 395, just south of Bridgeport, to Bodie State Historic Park.

From Outside Online

Nearly a year after the shootings in Newtown, Murphy was again in Bridgeport City Hall, on a dreary Thursday.

From The Daily Beast

But it arguably scored an emotionally more important win in Bridgeport, Conn., where it took over the school board.

From The Daily Beast

The Scouts already got to Jen Tyrrell, a gay mom in Bridgeport, Ohio.

From The Daily Beast

Pettway brought the infant to her home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and renamed her Nedjra Nance.

From The Daily Beast

There was talk of protests in other cities: Chicago, Seattle, Bridgeport.

From The Daily Beast

Each succeeding train of wagons took longer to make the trip from Bridgeport, and the draft mules were dying by the hundreds.

From Project Gutenberg

He had seen a good many elephant-trainers at Bridgeport, and he thought this one had a doubtful look.

From Project Gutenberg

I do not suppose the whole of the effects were worth transporting to Bridgeport, although estimated by him at a large amount.

From Project Gutenberg

They built a factory in East Bridgeport, and made preparations for manufacturing.

From Project Gutenberg

It was owned by a Bridgeport man and he paid par value for it in good gold and silver watches at cash prices.

From Project Gutenberg