Sasebo
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Some came within 150 miles of the Japanese city of Sasebo, home to a core U.S. naval base, according to ship-tracking data provided by geospatial analysis firm ingeniSPACE and verified by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
“We are systematizing a lot of things,” Capt. Yoshihiro Iwata, 44, said when the frigate was docked recently in Sasebo, in southwestern Japan.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
Leona Woods Marshall Libby: My brother-in-law was a captain of the first bombs’ minesweeper scheduled into Sasebo harbor.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2023
At Sasebo naval base in Nagasaki prefecture, wind speeds topped out around 64 mph and more than 6 inches of rain fell, but no significant damage was reported, according to reporting from Stars and Stripes.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
Would that burn up Sasebo, to hear us telling the world about his force, where it is, and how many ships, and so forth.
From Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Robert Sydney Bowen
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