Chesapeake
Americannoun
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(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.
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a city in SE Virginia.
Example Sentences
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Jeffrey Judge of Chesapeake Financial Planners said he works with clients who are living out exactly what the Society of Actuaries survey describes — and he argued the numbers may actually be optimistic.
From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026
Dell’Osso was appointed as CEO of Chesapeake Energy in 2021, months after the company emerged from bankruptcy after a big, ill-timed expansion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
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.
From Barron's • Oct. 7, 2025
“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 • Aug. 23, 2025
If you kept going south, on down past Queenstown, the river would hook around in the west, then the north and empty into the Chesapeake Bay, but mostly we crabbed the river.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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