Abaco
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Brian Hooker told police that he and his wife left Hope Town for Elbow Cay, in the Abaco Islands, on Saturday evening when she fell overboard, taking the boat's keys with her.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
For example, Thatchpoint Blue Hole on Great Abaco Island in the northern Bahamas includes evidence of at least 13 hurricanes per century that were Category 2 or above between the years 1500 and 1670.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2022
Nicole became a hurricane Wednesday evening as it slammed into Grand Bahama Island, having made landfall just hours earlier on Great Abaco island as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2022
The storm had already bombarded the Bahamas on Wednesday, including the Abaco Islands, where residents still had not recovered from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Dorian in 2019.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2022
Occasionally one of the latter would heave to outside the harbor and send in a boat to communicate with the American Consul; but their usual cruising ground was off Abaco Light.
From The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner by Wilkinson, John
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