Bakersfield

[bey-kerz-feeld]

noun

1. a city in S California.

Example Sentences

The $600-million development is on the tribe’s lands in Mettler, which is just south of Bakersfield and at the base of the mountain pass known as the Grapevine, near the 5 Freeway.

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CoreCivic’s 2,560-bed immigration detention center there sits on 70 acres in the Mohave Desert about 80 miles east of Bakersfield.

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The large swaths of the state affected by the Postal Service changes include both rural and urban areas such as Bakersfield, the Central Valley, the Central Coast, Palm Springs and more.

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But he is still making a two-hour commute from Bakersfield, after opposition from neighbors helped stall the opening of the park.

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When Johnathan Montes Diaz arrived from Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield earlier this month , he knew the place well.

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