St. Augustine

[aw-guh-steen]

noun

1. a seacoast city in NE Florida: founded by the Spanish 1565; oldest city in the U.S.; resort.

Example Sentences

Xi Jinping, presiding over the world’s second-largest economy, has shown the opposite: that prosperity alone cannot satisfy what St. Augustine called humanity’s “restless heart.”

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To Cicero it meant “rules or strictures”; following him, Mr. Appiah writes, St. Augustine observed that it refers not only to worship but to “the observance of duties in human relationships.”

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Instead of leaving for Florida, he moved in full-time with Alexander and chose to enroll at St. Augustine High, where Alexander was an assistant.

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Horton often push back the organic chaos of a subtropical swamp in favor of paver-stone patios and endless miles of St. Augustine grass.

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Division 1 champion St. John Bosco opens at home against St. Augustine as the top seed.

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