Lingayen Gulf

American  

[ling-gah-yen] / ˈlɪŋ gɑˈyɛn /

noun

1. a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.

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Lingayen Gulf British  

/ ˈlɪŋɡɑːˈjɛn /

noun

1. a large inlet of the South China Sea in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon: site of the Japanese landing in the 1941 invasion

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Example Sentences

In 1945, during World War II, American forces began landing on the shores of Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines as the Battle of Luzon got underway, resulting in an Allied victory over Imperial Japanese forces.

From Washington Times

She was a hostage, a prisoner of war, because my grandfather, Major Diego Sipin, was a wanted guerrilla fighter and one of the heroes of the Battle of Bessang Pass. She was held in a garrison in Agoo, La Union, Philippines, a seaside town on the Lingayen Gulf hit right after the attack on Pearl Harbor, for more than six months during the war.

From Salon

Population26 Pangasinan 1,193 397,902 Pampanga 868 223,754 Bulacan 1,173 223,742 Tarlac 1,205 135,107 Nueva Ecija 1,950 134,147 6,389 1,114,652 Roughly speaking, the central plain comprising the above five provinces is bounded as follows: On the north by mountains and Lingayen Gulf, on the east by a coast range of mountains separating it from the Pacific Ocean, on the west by a similar range separating it from the China Sea, and on the south by Manila Bay and mountains.

From Project Gutenberg

The Rio Grande de Pampanga flows obliquely across it in a southwesterly direction into Manila Bay, and near its western edge runs the railroad from Manila to Dagupan on Lingayen gulf.

From Project Gutenberg

On November 6th, General Wheaton set sail from Manila for Lingayen Gulf, with 2500 men of the 13th Regular and 33d Volunteer Infantry, and a platoon of the 6th Artillery, convoyed by the ships of the navy, and next day the expedition was successfully landed at San Fabian, “with effective assistance from the naval convoy against spirited resistance,” says Secretary of War Root, in his annual report for 1899.

From Project Gutenberg