Chesapeake meaning

chĕs'ə-pēk'
An independent city of southeast Virginia south of Norfolk. Originally the southern portion of Norfolk County, its vast area includes residential communities, farmland, and a section of the Dismal Swamp.
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City in SE Va., at the base of Chesapeake Bay.
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(historical) Any member of a Native American tribe that once inhabited the area now known as South Hampton Roads in Virginia, United States.
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Chesapeake Sentence Examples

  • The Delaware & Chesapeake Canal (132 m.

  • I know you don't go for a midnight swim on a dark beach by yourself, especially in the Chesapeake Bay.

  • Leo thought to himself that with one more drink he'd try to swim across the Chesapeake.

  • By the time the man had finished, his night vision was better and he could make out the tiny necklace of lights in the distance, the Chesapeake Bridge-Tunnel that ran 17 miles to the Eastern shore.

  • Detective Hunter advised the Sentinel by phone that tidal conditions on the Chesapeake might make retrieving a body difficult.

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