Gisborne
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The 25-year-old was born in Gisborne on New Zealand's North Island but is eligible for Scotland through a grandfather from Glasgow.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2025
Air New Zealand resumed services to all airports on Wednesday, including those in the heavily impacted regions of New Plymouth, Napier, and Gisborne, after Cyclone Gabrielle led to 821 flight cancellations and affected 49,000 customers.
From Reuters ● Feb. 15, 2023
The positions offered by Gisborne, Hawthorne and Naipaul are indicative of the expectations placed upon women in the literary marketplace and are very much tied to issues around the relationship between worth, taste and power.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2021
In Gisborne, the council decided to remove a statue of Cook after it was repeatedly vandalised.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2019
Mrs. Gisborne had heard that she was married, and feared she had been sacrificed to a man whom she describes as “that insipid, sickening Italian mortal, Danieli the lawyer.”
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
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