Bunker Hill

[ buhng-ker ]

noun

1. a hill in Charlestown, Mass.: the first major battle of the American Revolution, known as the Battle of Bunker Hill, was fought on adjoining Breed's Hill on June 17, 1775.

Bunker Hill

noun

1. the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers

Example Sentences

Friday, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a fire that started at a construction site on Bunker Hill Avenue, then jumped to a nearby three-story apartment building, according to a news alert.

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Bunker Hill is primed to elevate its status as the region’s leading arts center even as the area around it struggles with persistent homelessness and post-pandemic losses of office tenants.

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Bunker Hill will soon have the largest concentration of buildings designed by Frank Gehry in the world and promises to become a cultural center “like no other place,” the architect told the Los Angeles Times.

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It’s a depressingly reliable fact of Los Angeles architecture: Nothing comes easily on Bunker Hill.

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At Promenade Towers, a Bunker Hill apartment complex with 611 units that bills itself as “an urban oasis in the heart of downtown,” tenants received 371 eviction notices from late January through July.

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