Gulfport

[guhlf-pawrt, -pohrt]

noun

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

2. a town in W Florida.

Example Sentences

Amy and Geoff, high school sweethearts who met in their teens in Gulfport, Miss., are today in their early 50s, and the Museum of Make Believe has become a labor of love.

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“The price of repairs may mean we lose our character,” Sam Henderson, the mayor of Gulfport, told the Tampa Bay Times after Helene.

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“It’s long overdue for Mississippi to change a lot of their policies, a lot of their training” related to law enforcement, said Representative Jeffrey Hulum III, a Democrat from Gulfport who said he planned to co-sponsor the measure with Mr. Shanks.

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District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of Gulfport, Mississippi, ruled in favor of those who sued.

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Another large county, Harrison, said a grand jury meets three times a year in each of its two judicial districts in Biloxi and Gulfport.

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