Ostend
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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They premised their secret proposal, the Ostend Manifesto External link, on national defense.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
He took the promoter's business card and a week later called and arranged to move to the coastal city of Ostend.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2024
Modernist artists such as the early Expressionist James Ensor, from Ostend, another Flemish city, and Antwerp’s contemporary art star Luc Tuymans, continued to tap into the Flemish tradition of mastering oil paint.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
Ostend, the blowy Belgian resort on the North Sea, has international aspirations and Marvin Gaye, the late prince of Motown, has emerged as central to realising them.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2019
If this could be a question, no man could doubt that the city of Antwerp is much better situated to make an extensive commerce, than the city of Ostend.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various
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