Chesapeake

[ches-uh-peek]

noun

1. (italics),  a U.S. frigate boarded in 1807 by the British, who removed part of its crew and impressed some members into British service: captured by the British in naval battle near Boston in 1813.

2. a city in SE Virginia.

Example Sentences

Marks told Barron’s in 2021 that he owns a Danish-built sloop named Linnea that he had been fixing up for years, and sailed it in the Chesapeake Bay.

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“It’s not just the community that wants answers,” said Jimmy Williams, a YouTube videographer from Chesapeake, Va. “It’s the whole country that wants answers for this beautiful little baby.”

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But Suddeth, the Chesapeake rescuer, has brought 13 to place with interested adopters.

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She lives in Chesapeake, Virginia, close to the resort areas in Virginia Beach and the Outer Banks.

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Two years in, he gambled and switched to the Navy Academy at Annapolis, on Chesapeake Bay, in the hope of working with his beloved rockets.

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