Sevastopol

[ suh-vas-tuh-pohl, sev-uh-stoh-puhl; Russian syi-vuh-staw-puhl ]

noun

1. a fortified seaport in southern Crimea, in southeastern Ukraine: famous for its heroic resistance during sieges of 349 days in 1854–55, and 245 days in 1941–42.

Sevastopol

/ sɪvasˈtɔpəlj /

noun

1. a port, resort, and naval base in S Ukraine, in the Crimea, on the Black Sea: captured and destroyed by British, French, and Turkish forces after a siege of 11 months (1854–55) during the Crimean War; taken by the Germans after a siege of 8 months (1942) during World War II. Pop: 338 000 (2005 est) English nameSebastopol

Example Sentences

Three other mules from the Crimean city of Sevastopol were detained at a road checkpoint with $400,000 in cash on them.

From The Daily Beast

That same night they were picked up they were taken to a Russian navy base in Sevastopol and each was put in a separate cell.

From The Daily Beast

Next morning when we were approaching Sevastopol, it was damp, unpleasant weather; the ship rocked.

From Project Gutenberg

They reached Sevastopol in the evening and stopped at an hotel to rest and go on the next day to Yalta.

From Project Gutenberg

Many of them would sail to Kertch or Sevastopol and come straight back without their cargoes being broached.

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Sofya Matveyevna told her after a fashion, giving a very brief account of herself, however, beginning with Sevastopol.

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He died at Warsaw on the 30th of May 1861, and was buried, in accordance with his own wish, at Sevastopol.

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