Botany Bay

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noun

a bay on the SE coast of Australia, near Sydney: site of early British penal colony.

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How to use Botany Bay in a sentence

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The Tampa Bay Times got their hands on a full copy of the letter the retired judge sent to Winston.
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Rising up from scooping bay, the steep topography—hemmed by hills of evergreens—promises panoramas at practically every turn.
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Perhaps the guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities will finally be allowed to smoke cubans, too.
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The proceedings expected this week in Guantanamo Bay had been canceled.
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First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.
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These have canted bay windows below them, and their pediments are surmounted by figures representing Mercury and Athæne.
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Three men were sentenced to grow potatoes at Botany Bay the rest of their lives.
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There are two principal bays of vast size, one called the gulf of St. Lawrence, the other French bay.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
But this port (to obviate misunderstanding) is not on the Ocean lying eastward, but on that gulf which I have called French bay.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Botany Bay

Botany Bay

noun

an inlet of the Tasman Sea, on the SE coast of Australia: surrounded by the suburbs of Sydney

(in the 19th century) a British penal settlement that was in fact at Port Jackson, New South Wales

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