Galveston

[ gal-vuh-stuhn ]

noun

1. a seaport in SE Texas, on an island at the mouth of Galveston Bay.

Example Sentences

A portmanteau of “June” and “nineteenth,” Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when a group of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally learned that they were free from the institution of slavery.

From Vox

When Hurricane Ike made landfall in 2008, Bill Merrell took shelter on the second floor of a historic brick building in downtown Galveston, Texas, along with his wife, their daughter, their grandson, and two Chihuahuas.

From Popular-Science

In fact we had a few places here in Galveston that had an issue with us not wearing masks.

From Washington Post

In October, he was spotted with Becerra during a county government conference in Galveston, where two county commissioners from Calhoun County, interviewed by ProPublica and the Tribune, said they briefly spoke to Hayungs.

From ProPublica

Anna Armitage is a marine biologist at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

From Science News For Students

People aboard the Carnival Magic have another day and a half at sea before they reach Galveston, Texas.

From The Daily Beast

With Galveston, I wanted to write a book that I wanted to read.

From The Daily Beast

Yeah, but spending two years on the bad one taught me how to write Galveston.

From The Daily Beast

Then I wrote my novel Galveston in about three months, when my wife was in the last trimester of pregnancy.

From The Daily Beast

A year later Galveston got published, and it was optioned for very little money.

From The Daily Beast

This institution had opened years before as "The Galveston Flood."

From Project Gutenberg

The former is at present stationed at Galveston, Texas, and the latter at Honolulu.

From Project Gutenberg

Galveston had for some time been in the hands of the Union forces, and was occupied by three regiments of United States troops.

From Project Gutenberg

Practically all railway traffic entering Galveston was destined for export.

From Project Gutenberg

The roads not only refused to pro-rate, but actually demanded prepayment of freights from Galveston on, as local rates.

From Project Gutenberg