Bexhill

Bexhill-on-Sea

/ (ˌbɛksˈhɪl) /

noun

a resort in S England, in East Sussex on the English Channel. Pop: 39 451 (2001)

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Example sentences from the Web for bexhill

This difficulty was got over, and he went to Bexhill for a time, returning to Crowborough in September.
The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies|Walter Besant
Constable Wiseman lived in the bosom of his admiring family in a small cottage on the Bexhill Road.
The Man Who Knew|Edgar Wallace
Our train homewards was due at Bexhill a little after seven.
Mark Rutherford's Deliverance|Mark Rutherford
The German redoubt on Bexhill responded with a withering machine-gun fire against which it was impossible to advance.
The Story of the Great War, Volume VIII (of VIII)|various

"It was at the Metropole at Bexhill," Mrs. Phillimore answered.
A Lost Leader|E. Phillips Oppenheim

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