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folkestone

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for folkestone.

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There's a beautiful walk between Folkestone and Dover that somehow even people who live in Kent aren't aware of.

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Quick take

A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2235).

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2235).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for folkestone.

noun

A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2235).

Example sentences

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There's a beautiful walk between Folkestone and Dover that somehow even people who live in Kent aren't aware of.

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Margate and Folkestone became artistic hubs, after the last of ex industrial inner London got redeveloped.

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Having Folkestone jammed with containers of undistributed PPE while the clock runs down to the Brexit logistics crisis isn't helping either.

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I'm imaging droves of French people day-tripping to Folkestone for fish-and-chips, sausage rolls, expensive cigarettes and expensive crap beer.

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In 1922, 500 copies were seized by customs at Folkestone and burned.

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To be fair, the Folkestone terminal is quite...

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Margate, St Ives, Folkestone - visual arts.

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Quite a few South and East coast places used to have passenger ferry services to Europe and no longer do - Ramsgate, Hull, Great Yarmouth, Folkestone spring to mind but I'm sure there were more.

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One of the reasons that the explosives have not been removed was the unfortunate outcome of a similar operation in July 1967, to neutralize the contents of the Polish cargo ship Kielce, that sank in 1946, off Folkestone in the English Channel.

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I crapped out in my first play: I boarded a bus in London taking me to Dover, it went to Folkestone then travelled at warp speed to Doncaster which is more or less the opposite end of the country.

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Looks like you could walk, in theory (but not legally): > During one Sunday in October 1993, Wally Michalski and Mike Turner, working as contractors on the British side, used a pair of the Saracen bicycles to cycle the 100-kilometre (62 mi) round-trip from Folkestone to Coquelles and back again.

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The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to informally as the Chunnel,[3][4] is a 50.46-kilometre (31.35 mi) undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.

Quote examples

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Folkestone, Margate, Whitstable) have all been heavily "gentrified" in the last few years, but I sort of assumed Hythe was always this way?

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All I can think now is "Will a new battery size of rolodex be able charge your iPhone 400 times and power your electric car drive from Folkestone to Stoke-on-Trent?" And "New solar panel technology powers 30 middle Atlantic households or 400 French sheds."

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The link also says this about the last time they tried to manage a sunken munitions ship: “One of the reasons that the explosives have not been removed was the unfortunate outcome of a similar operation in July 1967, to neutralize the contents of SS Kielce, a ship of Polish origin, sunk in 1946, off Folkestone in the English Channel.

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Crap Towns called Hythe "...quite possibly the most spirit-crushingly tedious town in Kent." and "...the place that makes nearby Folkestone look like Las Vegas." As someone who grew up in Hythe in the 80s and 90s I'd point out that the Rotunda was a far cry from Vegas.

Proper noun examples

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We have positions in our strategically located office in Folkestone, Kent - an ideal commute from Canterbury, Ashford and Dover areas.

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We have positions in our strategically located offices in London Euston/KX and Folkestone, Kent.

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I suspect even that usage is now limited to only taking cars on the train from Folkestone.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use folkestone in a sentence?

There's a beautiful walk between Folkestone and Dover that somehow even people who live in Kent aren't aware of.

What does folkestone mean?

A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2235).

What part of speech is folkestone?

folkestone is commonly used as noun.