Longboat Key

noun

1. a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.

Example Sentences

On the northern end of Longboat Key, Lynn and Steve Roberts were in good spirits as they walked around their two disaster-stricken investment townhomes, stepping around broken glass from one of their neighbor’s back windows.

From Los Angeles Times

Mosby used that money not for necessary living expenses, but to buy a home in Kissimmee, Florida, and a condominium in Longboat Key, Florida.

From Slate

Judge Griggsby ordered Ms. Mosby on Thursday to forfeit a condominium in Longboat Key, Fla., that she had purchased with funds from a falsified mortgage application.

From New York Times

The National Hurricane Center in Miami issued a hurricane warning Monday from Longboat Key in the Sarasota area to the Holocene River, up past Tampa Bay.

From Seattle Times

Sue-Ellen Welfonder, 66, a bestselling romance novelist from Longboat Key, Florida, once enjoyed listening to the singing birds and the gentle swish of trees during her daily walks — her “soul balm time” — through a local park.

From Seattle Times