Lae

American  

[lah-ey, ley-ee] / ˈlɑ eɪ, ˈleɪ i /

noun

1. a seaport in E Papua New Guinea: used as a major supply base by the Japanese in World War II.

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Example Sentences

Samples of the highly infectious virus were found in two healthy children during a routine screening in Lae, a coastal city in the country's north east.

From BBC • May 16, 2025

But the highway had been cleared from Yambali to the provincial capital Wabag through to Lae, officials said Tuesday from Enga.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2024

Earhart and Noonan disappeared on July 2, 1937, flying from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island, a one-and-a-half-mile long island some 2,500 miles away.

From National Geographic • Jan. 30, 2024

Her friend, Lae, a 30-year-old woman originally from Hawaii who would not give her full name, smoked a cigarette and shook her head in disgust.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

They gave him gin and biscuit and dry clothes, and asked him how he came where they found him, and whether the light which they had seen was the lighthouse Lae o Ka Laau.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis