Parris Island

[par-is]

noun

1. a U.S. Marine Corps base, recruit depot, and training station in SE South Carolina, SW of Beaufort and S of Port Royal Island.

Example Sentences

Soon, the two young men and other recruits find themselves on a bus bound for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island, which Cam mistakenly pictures as a camping excursion.

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Parris Island’s staff, perversely enough, represents the exact opposite of Barbara’s parenting style.

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But the message of “Boots” is that while Cameron Cope is forced to hide much of who he is as a Marine recruit, he only comes into his fully realized self through the hardships of boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., circa 1990.

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But for all the calculated cruelty and blind ignorance, there is a humorous angle to the conditions on Parris Island: The intimate living conditions, the constant showering, the “blouses,” the “mounting.”

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Laid across this ostinato are various storylines involving recruits working out the issues that have brought them to this Parris Island of Misfit Boys.

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