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Long Beach

noun

  1. a city in SW California, S of Los Angeles: a seaside resort.
  2. a city on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
  3. (italics) Military. the U.S. Navy's first nuclear-powered surface ship, a guided-missile cruiser launched in 1959.


Long Beach

noun

  1. a city in SW California, on San Pedro Bay: resort and naval base; oil-refining. Pop: 475 460 (2003 est)


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Few details have been revealed about the shooting of an 18-year-old girl in Long Beach, California last week.

For 2014, a new child, this one a girl from Long Beach, California, was presented at the annual meeting.

Before the Long Beach, California couple could mourn the first baby, another was coming, and fading, and then the next.

“I look at Jennifer Hudson and I believe she uses Weight Watchers,” says 23-year-old Frances Lindsay of Long Beach, California.

Perhaps two dozen people all told on a mile-long beach, and this group decides to have their fun almost on top of us.

Dusk purpled on the breathless water, and on the long beach.

Long Beach made quite a display of new houses along the beach, north of the mouth of the Columbia.

There was little grumbling or soreness when the decision was finally confirmed to let fall the bomb on what had been Long Beach.

Here and there she could catch the white sail of some boat, skimming over the waves; but the long beach was lonely and deserted.

It was at Long Beach that I first heard a night-singing bird, somewhat like the nightingale.

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