Apia
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The route from the airport to Apia - Samoa's capital - had been spruced up for the royal visit on Wednesday.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2024
A forensic pathologist was due to travel from Fiji to Apia, a city of 36,000 people on Samoa’s second-largest island, Upolu, to conduct an autopsy later this month.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024
In all, 32 embassies ranked in the highest category for climate disaster risk, from Apia, Samoa, to Valletta, Malta.
From Scientific American • Dec. 1, 2022
Oli Lefauaitu, a security officer, was living with his wife, Moana, and their nine children in the swampland area outside Apia when the youngest, their 14-month-old daughter, Si’iae, became ill.
From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2020
An hour before he had been able to distil a potent magic, thought obliterating, by sheer force of repetition of the names, Apia, Hawaii, Tahiti, Samoa....
From The Destroying Angel by Vance, Louis Joseph
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