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

“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.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Slate

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

From Slate

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.

From BBC

In Virginia, the company is working with farmers to reduce nutrient pollution in Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the US.

From BBC