Daytona Beach

[ dey-toh-nuh ]

/ deɪˈtoʊ nə /

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noun

a city in NE Florida: seashore resort.

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How to use Daytona Beach in a sentence

On April 6, “looting, property destruction, fires, and confrontations with police rippled through Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Daytona Beach, Tallahassee, and Nashville,” writes Sweig.
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In Daytona Beach, Florida, some seniors waited in line overnight to get a vaccine.
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Dinner was a baroque affair, on the beach, a warm breeze gently blowing.
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The city protests that a beach is not a suitable place to feed the hungry.
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One of the three, Ralph Goodwin, is said to have drowned while swimming at a beach outside Havana.
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Inside the Miami Beach Convention Center, there is a lot of good art—but more pretty art.
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She had enrolled at Maimonides University in North Miami Beach in order to work towards a degree in clinical sexology.
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If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
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The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
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The little crowd and the boats on the beach were right under them and no one paid any attention or seemed to be in a hurry.
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My thought was to keep pushing in troops from "W" Beach until the enemy had fallen back to save themselves from being cut off.
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Going back, found that the lighter loads of wounded already taken off have by no means cleared the beach.
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British Dictionary definitions for Daytona Beach

Daytona Beach

/ (deɪˈtəʊnə) /

noun

a city in NE Florida, on the Atlantic: a resort with a beach of hard white sand, used since 1903 for motor speed trials. Pop: 64 581 (2003 est)

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