Cherbourg

[ shair-boorg; French sher-boor ]

noun

1. a seaport in NW France.

Cherbourg

/ ʃɛrbur; ˈʃɛəbʊəɡ /

noun

1. a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)

Example Sentences

The doomed liner left from Southampton but called in at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown - now known as Cobh - in Ireland, before setting out across the Atlantic.

From BBC

A plane from Channel Islands Air Search was sent to the scene from Guernsey, along with lifeboat crews from Alderney and France and the French helicopter crew based near Cherbourg.

From BBC

“When you’re doing Tom on the train from Cherbourg to Naples, and you pull up David Seymour’s photograph of Ingrid Bergman going from Naples to Cannes on the Orient Express, you know exactly what that train car looks like in black and white.”

From Los Angeles Times

France will honor the former soldiers at several ceremonies this year, including a commemoration with President Joe Biden in Cherbourg on June 7.

From Seattle Times

Writing before being liberated, a woman in the bombarded port city of Cherbourg described Allied pilots as “bandits and assassins” in a June 4, 1944, letter to her husband who was being held prisoner in Germany.

From Seattle Times