Massachusetts Bay
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is demanding $80 to ride one of the 14 express trains on the 30-mile trip from downtown Boston to Foxborough for games at Gillette Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
He could have called this idea Winthropism, since he identifies John Winthrop—the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the first half of the 17th century—as its earliest proponent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Margaret Jones, the first woman executed for witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during New England’s 200-year witch hunt, opens the menu, which comes with a 20-page graphic novel.
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2024
Catholic Charities Boston is the first organization to be awarded a grant to provide temporary rooms to extremely low-income families with children and pregnant individuals, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay announced this week.
From Washington Times • Nov. 24, 2023
There burnt the Sun of Massachusetts Bay above us, the Eye of God too, & the Kelp was around us, & the grassy heaped Hills was before us, where grazed dumb Beasts.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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