Long Beach

noun

1. a city in SW California, S of Los Angeles: a seaside resort.
2. a city on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
3. (italics) Military. the U.S. Navy's first nuclear-powered surface ship, a guided-missile cruiser launched in 1959.

Long Beach

noun

1. a city in SW California, on San Pedro Bay: resort and naval base; oil-refining. Pop: 475 460 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

UFCW Local 324 is named in the lawsuit filed against Long Beach.

From Eater

“More importantly, I have concerns about the unintended consequences that will result,” Barger said in a statement, pointing to the Long Beach store closures.

From Washington Post

The Long Beach policy is in place for 120 days and includes groceries that sell at least 70 percent food products and employ more than 300 people nationally with at least 15 employees per store.

From Washington Post

The city of Los Angeles proper has around four million, but the county is home to the cities of LA, Long Beach, Santa Clarita, Glendale, and more.

From Popular-Science

In Long Beach, California — despite its entrenched car culture — Mayor Robert Garcia has proposed making parklets along Pine Avenue permanent.

From Ozy

Few details have been revealed about the shooting of an 18-year-old girl in Long Beach, California last week.

From The Daily Beast

For 2014, a new child, this one a girl from Long Beach, California, was presented at the annual meeting.

From The Daily Beast

Before the Long Beach, California couple could mourn the first baby, another was coming, and fading, and then the next.

From The Daily Beast

“I look at Jennifer Hudson and I believe she uses Weight Watchers,” says 23-year-old Frances Lindsay of Long Beach, California.

From The Daily Beast

Perhaps two dozen people all told on a mile-long beach, and this group decides to have their fun almost on top of us.

From The Daily Beast

Dusk purpled on the breathless water, and on the long beach.

From Project Gutenberg

Long Beach made quite a display of new houses along the beach, north of the mouth of the Columbia.

From Project Gutenberg

There was little grumbling or soreness when the decision was finally confirmed to let fall the bomb on what had been Long Beach.

From Project Gutenberg

Here and there she could catch the white sail of some boat, skimming over the waves; but the long beach was lonely and deserted.

From Project Gutenberg

It was at Long Beach that I first heard a night-singing bird, somewhat like the nightingale.

From Project Gutenberg