Parks

[ pahrks ]

noun

1. Gordon (Alexander Buchanan), 1912–2006, U.S. photojournalist and film director.
2. Rosa Rosa Louise McCauley, 1913–2006, U.S. civil rights leader.

Example Sentences

Residents in Ladera Ranch intend to continue taking shifts standing guard outside the Si family’s home “until they feel safe,” Parks said.

From Washington Post

Parks’ activism started with wanting to register to vote in the 1940s.

From Time

Following Parks’s death, the local bus drivers’ union demanded more protection for its members, the Baltimore Sun reported.

From Washington Post

Looking back at the Montgomery Bus Boycott, it happened as a direct result of Parks being arrested.

From TruthBeTold.news

Parks’ success metric was being able to enter into bizarre or unlikely subreddits where the members already knew him, reputational clout that is hard to measure.

From Digiday

There are parks filled with men pushing strollers and coffee shops where fathers meet their friends, babes in arms.

From The Daily Beast

As anybody who has seen his now famous rant on Parks and Recreation knows, Patton Oswalt can get a little obsessed.

From The Daily Beast

Paying for all those pensions inevitably means less money for parks and schools.

From The Daily Beast

In January 2014, a lifelong District of Columbia parks employee, Medric Mills, collapsed while walking with his grown daughter.

From The Daily Beast

Before Fidel, when segregation was in full swing, the Cuban apartheid meant many clubs and parks still refused black Cubans entry.

From The Daily Beast

Most of the sanitary improvements and the educational, all schemes for parks and better streets, come from them.

From Project Gutenberg

Such of us as remain are like the buffalo penned in national parks—a sorry remnant of the days that were.

From Project Gutenberg

Eight years after Williamsburg had been incorporated, William Parks arrived there as a public printer.

From Project Gutenberg

It passes through a beautiful section and is bordered in many places by the immense parks of country estates.

From Project Gutenberg

In many of the parks, the rhododendrons were in full bloom, and their rich masses of color wonderfully enlivened the scenery.

From Project Gutenberg