Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of northwest Washington in Puget Sound north of Seattle and east of Admiralty Inlet.
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Examples
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Then they will be flown on two separate airplanes, on Saturday, back to Whidbey Island, which is where their plane was based, and there will be a huge party there, a big shindig with family and friends -- that sort of thing.
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And then on Saturday morning, they will board two planes, and they'll go to Whidbey Island, which is where their plane was based, originally.
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"We've become disconnected from the source of our food, and I hope to change that," says Camille LaTray, proprietress of Raven and the Spade, a two-and-a-half acre organic vegetable garden on Whidbey Island in Washington state.
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I remember during one homecoming when we were out at Whidbey Island, Washington, at the naval air station there, there was a little girl there and her dad had tried to paint her nails for the mom's homecoming.
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Transition Towns across the United States engage people in a variety of community projects — including a local currency project in south Whidbey Island, Washington; a car share program in Louisville, Colorado; a reskilling festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan; and local energy initiatives in West Marin, California.
Tara Lohan: Pioneering Towns (Big and Small) Are Rushing to Kick Their Carbon Addiction 2010
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On Dec. 19, 2008, the USS Whidbey Island fired a warning at a small Iranian boat that was rapidly approaching it.
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Shauna Snyder, a private investigator on Whidbey Island near Camano, said she set up a legal defense fund for Harris-Moore at the request of his mother.
Barefoot Bandit Caught: Bahamas Police Arrest Colton Harris-Moore (PHOTO) 2010
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To do so the Navy is planning to expand ongoing anti-submarine training exercises in Admiralty Inlet off Whidbey Island, in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and along the Washington coast out 200 miles, off Oregon and down to Eureka California, and off Southern California, the east coast and off Hawaii.
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Two weekends ago, I spent the weekend on Whidbey Island with three other people doing our own version of a Think Tank.
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Two weekends ago, I spent the weekend on Whidbey Island with three other people doing our own version of a Think Tank.
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