Sendai

American

[sen-dahy] / ˈsɛnˈdaɪ /

noun

a city on NE Honshu, in central Japan.

Sendai British

/ sɛnˈdaɪ /

noun

a city in central Japan, on NE Honshu: university (1907). Pop: 986 713 (2002 est)

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The Reagan was moving fast, but as it neared Sendai, the sea became thick with wreckage from the tsunami.

From Literature

Sendai, a large city close to the epicenter, was hit by the full force of the quake, but all of Honshu felt it.

From Literature

“I never experienced such a strong earthquake in my life,” a city official from Sendai told a reporter in disbelief that night.

From Literature

The results indicated that warm water from the Kuroshio Current -- now extending farther north alongside unusually high sea-surface temperatures -- likely carried the colonies into Sendai Bay.

From Science Daily

"I was working on a completely different research project around Sendai Bay in the Tohoku region, when I came across this unique jellyfish I had never seen around here before," recalls second author Yoshiki Ochiai.

From Science Daily

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