Cairns
a seaport in NE Australia.
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How to use Cairns in a sentence
He’s a medical researcher at the Cairns campus of James Cook University in Australia.
How wriggling, blood-eating parasitic worms alter the body | Kathryn Hulick | November 3, 2022 | Science News For StudentsMarine biologist Gareth Phillips, director of Reef Teach in Cairns, Australia, suggested checking for global and local certifications, such as EarthCheck and Ecotourism Australia.
Locals are working to restore coral reefs in beloved travel destinations. You can help. | Sunny Fitzgerald | September 30, 2021 | Washington PostCairns led the way over naked granite and toward the south of the island, where we crossed one of the crushed-stone carriage roads that wind though the park.
Don’t call it relaxation. On this Maine island, vacation is for rusticating. | Jen Rose Smith | September 10, 2021 | Washington PostMy ribs are like a xylophone, and the knobs of my spine stick up like ponderous Cairns in the landscape of my back.
At the summit two Cairns were found, the bamboo poles which had previously marked them having blown over.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson
At intervals along the trail they would erect other Cairns to mark the way over the desert of snow.
Heroes of To-Day | Mary R. ParkmanI have heard that some of those high schools are really excellent, drawled Miss Cairns.
Marjorie Dean College Freshman | Pauline LesterThen there were sacred Cairns, consisting of stones thrown together by passers by, every one adding his stone.
The Mysteries of All Nations | James GrantIf any one removed these Cairns, or part thereof, superstitious people predicted evil to the spoiler.
The Mysteries of All Nations | James Grant
British Dictionary definitions for Cairns
/ (kænz, kɛənz) /
a port in NE Australia, in Queensland. Pop: 98 981 (2001)
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