Jonestown

[ johnz-toun ]

/ ˈdʒoʊnzˌtaʊn /

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noun

a former settlement in northern Guyana, northwest of Georgetown: an agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the Peoples Temple, infamous as the site of a mass suicide and murder in 1978.

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How to use Jonestown in a sentence

Right after Jonestown, I legally purchased the gun and learned how to shoot it.
Tim Cahill Is an Outside Legend. Thank Goodness He Didn’t Die.|jversteegh|December 28, 2021|Outside Online
One survivor who had escaped through the jungle in the final hours of Jonestown came to the theater looking for his friends in the Temple.
The Story of the Jonestown Massacre Is About Much More Than Jim Jones. We've Been Fighting to Tell It for Decades|Margo Hall|November 17, 2021|Time
Also a myth is that Jim Jones remains the only representation of Peoples Temple and Jonestown whose story is worth telling.
The Story of the Jonestown Massacre Is About Much More Than Jim Jones. We've Been Fighting to Tell It for Decades|Margo Hall|November 17, 2021|Time
The events that unfolded were graphic and horrible, but we would find an artful way to handle the deaths in Jonestown.
The Story of the Jonestown Massacre Is About Much More Than Jim Jones. We've Been Fighting to Tell It for Decades|Margo Hall|November 17, 2021|Time

Time after time, we see the people of Jonestown described as “blind followers” and Jim Jones as the “cult leader” who ordered them to die.
The Story of the Jonestown Massacre Is About Much More Than Jim Jones. We've Been Fighting to Tell It for Decades|Margo Hall|November 17, 2021|Time
The return of Stephen Glass, the truth about Anonymous and escaping Jonestown.
The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, Nov 10-16, 2014|William Boot|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If it were not the case, then there would be a Jonestown after every performance of King Lear.
Martin Amis Talks About Nazis, Novels, and Cute Babies|Ronald K. Fried|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The most famous event to take place in this landscape was the Jonestown massacre in 1978.
Is Travel Writing Dead?|Malcolm Jones|June 5, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Do you go with former Jonestown cult leader and Butler alum Jim Jones or Johnny Carson's ex-saxophone player Tommy Newsom?
March Madness: Which Celebrity Alumni Will Win?|Michael Solomon|March 17, 2011|DAILY BEAST
He was frustrated that the State Department had stonewalled his attempts to find out what was going on in Jonestown.
They Murdered My Friend|Sandra McElwaine|November 17, 2008|DAILY BEAST