Riviera Beach

[ ri-veer-uh ]

noun

1. a town in SE Florida.

Example Sentences

On Sept. 15, 2012, two robbers packing AK-47s stormed into a GardaWorld cash storage facility in Riviera Beach, Fla. They jabbed a rifle into the back of Hjalmar Towns, a company supervisor, and grabbed a Ruger pistol from his waistband.

From Los Angeles Times

Towns, who had tried to deceive investigators by saying his assailants in Riviera Beach were Haitians speaking Creole, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for the robbery — and more than 14 years for the failed armored car job.

From Los Angeles Times

Its cash management business has been targeted by thieves on many occasions over the years — and some of those criminals have had ties to the company, including in high-profile crimes in Riviera Beach, Fla., in 2012, and San Leandro, Calif., in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times

In doing so, she and her team created or bought hundreds of costumes, each of them fitting into one of approximately 15 color combinations, mostly pastels, “that riffed off the idea of a French Riviera beach in the early 1960s,” she told Vogue in an interview; “lavender, bright blue, light blue; green, orange, beige; orange, blue, pink; two pinks and a yellow …”

From Seattle Times

Other companies named in the report with much smaller shares of imports include Lumberbest of Alhambra, Kingsley Bate of Manassas, Va., and World Panel Products of Riviera Beach, Fla.

From Los Angeles Times