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Oceanside

American  
[oh-shuhn-sahyd] / ˈoʊ ʃənˌsaɪd /

noun

  1. a city in SW California.

  2. a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.


Example Sentences

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A 70-year-old man died Tuesday after falling from a cliff along California’s treacherous Devil’s Slide, an oceanside stretch in Pacifica known for steep terrain that has led to several fatal accidents.

From Los Angeles Times

Visitors to the Getty Villa in Los Angeles—the oceanside site of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s antiquities collection—have good reason to curse Theodosius as they gaze upon the sublime portrait of Isidora, painted around A.D.

From The Wall Street Journal

I’ve never been much of a beach person, but I spent a lot of time on the sand that summer, from Santa Barbara and Malibu to Oceanside.

From Los Angeles Times

With benign conditions turning gusty in the final hour, Morikawa hooked his tee shot on 17 and could only manage a bogey from the oceanside rough.

From Barron's

Meaning Mom could be lounging by an oceanside cabana and eating sushi just about anywhere.

From Literature