Jonestown
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The man from Jonestown, Pennsylvania, has previously said he obtained Wally in 2015 after the alligator was rescued in Florida at the age of 14 months.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024
Think Anton Newcombe, the Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman and truculent protagonist of “Dig!” or Josh Harris, the dot-com futurist profiled in “We Live in Public.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
His Jonestown studies focused on those suffering severe forms of narcissistic personality disorder, “when the world they have known in the past starts to spin out of their control.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
He said Kerr was from Austin, while the Harveys were from nearby Jonestown.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 29, 2020
In December, 1977, Berkley brought out a book about the Jonestown tragedy, The Guyana Massacre by Charles Krause, which was written, published and distributed in a single week.
From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max
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