Bakersfield

[ bey-kerz-feeld ]

noun

1. a city in S California.

Example Sentences

He grew up in Bakersfield, California in a family of blue-collar Democrats, he says in the 2010 book Young Guns.

From Time

Matthew Mickey, who owns Intuition Skate Shop in Bakersfield, California, one of the few retailers on the West Coast carrying Powerslide’s SUV skates, says interest in adventure models has grown alongside the overall pandemic boom for in-line skates.

From Outside Online

Hundreds packed the county supervisors’ chambers in Bakersfield in January for a meeting that lasted nearly seven hours.

From ProPublica

CalGEM staff in the Bakersfield office conducted many in-depth inspections of spill sites and wrote reports documenting them for superiors.

From ProPublica

When she retired, there was a continuous, remote monitoring station in Bakersfield, 40 minutes away, tracking the company’s Kern County fields.

From ProPublica

Boyd and a crew travelled to Bakersfield, and the Hopalong Cassidy series was born.

From The Daily Beast

I asked about whether they were worried about the cat running away after he mentioned “the mean streets of Bakersfield.”

From The Daily Beast

In 2013, an elderly woman collapsed at an assisted living facility in Bakersfield, California, and a nurse called 911.

From The Daily Beast

Lisa-Marie's previous guardian dropped her off at a Bakersfield shelter with serious injuries to her head and mouth.

From The Daily Beast

The early morning shooting at Taft Union High School, near Bakersfield, is just the latest attack to occur at a school in the U.S.

From The Daily Beast

What he did in this case was to stop in Bakersfield at a garage that had a combination drugstore and news-stand next door.

From Project Gutenberg

It is worth noting that Bakersfield, which was part of this great ranch, took its name from Colonel Baker.

From Project Gutenberg

Alphonse Weil, a native of the sunny slopes of France, has grown up with the town of Bakersfield.

From Project Gutenberg

Many never went to the valley at all and the remainder were distributed from Sacramento to Bakersfield.

From Project Gutenberg

As we approached Bakersfield the land grew richer and the grass was thicker and greener.

From Project Gutenberg