Longboat Key

American  

noun

1. a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.

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Example Sentences

The technicolor Florida sunset had faded into darkness, and my extended family, assembled from two continents and three countries, gathered on the beach at Longboat Key to look at the stars.

From Salon

On the northern end of Longboat Key, Lynn and Steve Roberts were in good spirits as they walked around their two disaster-stricken investment townhomes, stepping around broken glass from one of their neighbor’s back windows.

From Los Angeles Times

Mosby used that money not for necessary living expenses, but to buy a home in Kissimmee, Florida, and a condominium in Longboat Key, Florida.

From Slate

Judge Griggsby ordered Ms. Mosby on Thursday to forfeit a condominium in Longboat Key, Fla., that she had purchased with funds from a falsified mortgage application.

From New York Times

The National Hurricane Center in Miami issued a hurricane warning Monday from Longboat Key in the Sarasota area to the Holocene River, up past Tampa Bay.

From Seattle Times