Santa Barbara

[ san-tuh bahr-ber-uh, -bruh ]

noun

1. a city on the SW coast of California: Spanish mission.

Example Sentences

The good news is, in a study of physicists and writers, psychologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, found that 20% of their most original ideas arose while daydreaming.

From Time

The Investment Group of Santa Barbara, Warner Music Group, and a number of current investors, also participated in this round.

From TechCrunch

He was working out in Santa Barbara, California, where Richardson — then a member of the Miami Heat — would spend his offseasons training.

From FiveThirtyEight

These areas, such as Santa Barbara and Del Mar, have fewer lower-cost accommodations along the coastal zone.

From Voice of San Diego

“That is the most exciting thing that has happened in this subject, I think, since Hawking,” said one of the co-authors, Donald Marolf of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

From Quanta Magazine

She also pointedly noted that some of the Santa Barbara victims were stabbed, not shot.

From The Daily Beast

It is as deliberate as the shooting in Santa Barbara Friday night.

From The Daily Beast

Yet another massacre occurred last night at an institution of learning, this time the University of California, Santa Barbara.

From The Daily Beast

What happens when faux psychic detective Shawn Spencer is busted for having lied to the Santa Barbara Police for eight years?

From The Daily Beast

He resided in Santa Barbara, Calif., with his golden retriever dogs and surfed in his spare time.

From The Daily Beast

He reached the Santa Barbara Islands, intending to spend the winter there, but he died soon after his arrival.

From Project Gutenberg

All that day and night the boat kept steadily on her way, and the next morning they were in Santa Barbara Channel.

From Project Gutenberg

The head-lines announced that the two had been in an accident in Mr. Hepworth's motor-car at Santa Barbara.

From Project Gutenberg

Miramar is a suburb of Santa Barbara, as is Montecito, another charming foothill site for country homes.

From Project Gutenberg

And then Santa Barbara, peerless among all-the-year-round resorts.

From Project Gutenberg