San Clemente Island

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noun

an island off the coast of S California, in the Santa Barbara (Channel) Islands. 24 miles (38 km) long.

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Words nearby San Clemente Island

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How to use San Clemente Island in a sentence

Satellites pick up spills all the time, like a May 23 spill off the coast of San Clemente Island.
Decoding Marine Oil Spills Requires Slick Detective Work|MacKenzie Elmer|July 6, 2021|Voice of San Diego
The AAV — designed to carry Marines ashore — sank off the coast of San Clemente Island, a Navy-owned training area, on the evening of July 30 as it returned to the USS Somerset.
Deadly Marine Corps disaster at sea was ‘tragic’ and ‘preventable,’ investigation finds|Dan Lamothe|March 26, 2021|Washington Post
But Krauss said that from the moment he and the other scientists arrived on the island, they never saw anything untoward.
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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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Let Jourdan Dunn be the first of many—not an island, or badge of self-congratulation.
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Guy Molinari, a former Staten Island borough president, pushed back against that view.
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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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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
A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
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