Lakewood

[ leyk-wood ]

noun
  1. a city in central Colorado, near Denver.

  2. a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.

  1. a city in NE Ohio, on Lake Erie, near Cleveland.

  2. a town in E New Jersey.

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How to use Lakewood in a sentence

  • In Lakewood, Officer Andrew Solomon worked 980 extra duty hours in 2019 and took home an additional $63,000, which more than doubled his base salary that year.

    How the Police Bank Millions Through Their Union Contracts | by Andrew Ford, Asbury Park Press, and Agnes Chang, Jeff Kao and Agnel Philip, ProPublica | February 8, 2021 | ProPublica
  • A search of WhitePages.com found that the number was an unpublished landline number originating from Lakewood, California.

  • In the vicinity of Lakewood we held revival services, and preached every night to a crowded house for over two months.

    Gathering Jewels | James Knowles and Matilda Darroch Knowles
  • For a time, an outsider looking on would have seen no great change at Lakewood, as the Reed homestead was called.

    Donald and Dorothy | Mary Mapes Dodge
  • But at any moment he might reappear at Lakewood and carry out his threat of obtaining an interview with Dorry.

    Donald and Dorothy | Mary Mapes Dodge
  • Might she not, she suggested, take Cicely to Tuxedo or Lakewood, and thus get quite away from household cares and good works?

    The Fruit of the Tree | Edith Wharton
  • For five minutes Lawrence forgot there was a place called Lakewood, where tall pines murmur.

    Princeton Stories | Jesse Lynch Williams