San Clemente

[ san kluh-men-tee ]

/ ˌsæn kləˈmɛn ti /

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noun

a town in S California.

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Words nearby San Clemente

San Buenaventura, San Carlos, Sancerre, Sanchez, Sancho Panza, San Clemente, San Clemente Island, San Cristóbal, sanctified, sanctify, sanctimonious

How to use San Clemente in a sentence

Born in San Clemente, California, to a former pro surfer father who had his son out in the waves not long after he’d exited the womb, Andino has long been described as the World Tour’s all-American kid and a world-title threat.
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San Clemente is known for having some natural seeps, but when they spout it’s usually a pretty substantial “belch,” Valentine said.
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When I lived in the surfing hub of San Clemente, California, I was always looking for magic surfboards—those that elevated the wave-riding experience to new levels.
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Later I heard the whole LA basin was flooded, all the way from the Hollywood Hills down to San Clemente, past Irvine where I grew up.
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San Francisco was the first city to pass one in 2006; since then, 14 other cities and three states have followed suit.
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And now Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are all suing Uber for refusing to play by their old regulatory playbooks.
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Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history.
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Last year in San Diego, they sported bloody pants and angry signs.
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Lynchburg is a six-month-old German sausage and ale house in the heart of Panama's San Francisco neighborhood.
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San Antonio de Bexar lies in a fertile and well-irrigated valley, stretching westward from the river Salado.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Columbus found the natives of San Salvador smoking after this manner.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
The five hundred men whom we had left in San Antonio de Bexar, fared no better.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The jagged top and spurs of San Jacinto Mountain shone like the turrets and posterns of a citadel built of rubies.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
On a shelf near one of these windows stood the little Madonna, again wreathed with vines as in San Pasquale.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson