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
We spent an afternoon in a private room in a concert hall in Ostend flicking through page after page of documents revealing every aspect of Marvin Gaye's life at the time.
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
Brighton is not Ostend, any more than Llanyglo is either, and Mrs. Lacey considers that you can't be too careful....
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
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