Poole

[ pool ]

noun

1. a port in Dorset, in S England.

Poole

/ puːl /

noun

1. a port and resort in S England, in Poole unitary authority, Dorset, on Poole Harbour ; seat of Bournemouth University (1992). Pop: 144 800 (2001)
2. a unitary authority in S England, in Dorset. Pop: 137 500 (2003 est). Area: 37 sq km (14 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Dr Purbrick, who has been a GP in Poole for 24 years, said practices were independent businesses and could not afford to run at a deficit.

From BBC

Katherine Keyte from Poole and Bournemouth is part of a cold water swim group and said she had "never marched before" but "felt very, very passionately about this".

From BBC

In Dark Carnivals: Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire, historian W. Scott Poole uses two potent symbols from 1970s cinema to explore how America conceives of threats to its idealized, aspirational image: the shark and the chain saw.

From Slate

“Everyone is inexorably middle class and happy until the shark shows up to ruin it,” Poole writes.

From Slate

It’s a lot simpler than Poole’s alternative: In The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, he writes, the monsters are “hatched from the dragon’s teeth America sowed in its own soil.”

From Slate