Wallsend
Americannoun
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a city in Tyne and Wear, NE England, near the mouth of the Tyne River.
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a type of coal widely used in Great Britain, especially for domestic purposes.
noun
Example Sentences
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Probably the best players around the area joined Wallsend so that was good.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
He was born in Wallsend, England, in late June 1945.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
The River Tyne's most famous shipyard, Swan Hunter in Wallsend, shut in 1993.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
"We didn't have any books in the house", he tells me by email, but "I was fortunate in the 60s to have had access to Wallsend library".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
He was now unloading some of the best Wallsend that ever came up the river, and would take care that the next half ton should not have an ounce of small in it.
From Pages from a Journal with Other Papers by Mark Rutherford
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