Gulfport

American  

[guhlf-pawrt, -pohrt] / ˈgʌlfˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt /

noun

1. a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.

2. a town in W Florida.

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Example Sentences

I got off the train again at the next stop, Gulfport, Miss., a historic commercial hub anchored by the headquarters for Hancock Whitney Bank.

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The ship rounded Africa on Aug. 14 and crossed the Atlantic in three weeks, passing by the northern shores of Venezuela before arriving in Gulfport, Miss., on Sept. 11.

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McMichael boarded the Zhen Hua 29 at the Port of Gulfport on Sept. 13 carrying cajun seasoning and a Ports America baseball cap.

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Workers offloaded Gulfport’s crane over a weekend.

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He is the Gulfport general manager for Ports America, a private company that handles cargo at the port and that ordered the smallest of the cranes, measuring 300 feet tall and weighing 1,500 tons.

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