Gustavus
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Roy Owen Haynes was born March 13, 1925 in Roxbury, Mass. His parents, Gustavus and Edna Haynes, had moved to the area from Barbados.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
Episodes like these occur too regularly, said Jon Grinnell, associate professor of biology and a bison expert at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Meyer, who still has shrapnel in his thigh that continues to cause him occasional pain, was scheduled to receive it in a ceremony at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
Christine Gabrielle sat at her desk at the Glacier Bay National Park headquarters in Gustavus, Alaska, and turned up the volume on her computer.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2021
Gustavus Swift boasted about the clever use of animal byproducts: “Now we use all of the hog except his grunt.”
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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