Sheerness
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The money has allowed a local school, Sheppey College, to be refurbished, an adventure golf course to be built, and redevelopment of the main gym in Sheerness.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
Sheerness Port - which imports large numbers of cars and fresh fruit - does employ hundreds of people, yet it once employed thousands.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
It launched the scheme in 2007 after dozens of protests, with about 1,000 ASW workers in Cardiff, Belfast and Sheerness, Kent, losing pensions they had been paying into for decades.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2024
There will be no service on the Sheerness line after 10:00 for the rest of the day, and there are cancellations on the high speed line to and from London St Pancras throughout the day.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2023
This proved to be the island of Porto Santo; and she brought up about two miles off the principal town early in the afternoon, having made the voyage from Sheerness in exactly eleven days.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick
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