Sandy Hook

noun

1. a peninsula in E New Jersey, at the entrance to lower New York Bay. 6 miles (10 km) long.

Example Sentences

In 2012, after 20 first-graders and six adults were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., an 11-year-old Joaquin wrote a letter to gun owners advocating for universal background checks as part of a school project.

From Los Angeles Times

She was working as a lifeguard for the National Park Service in Sandy Hook, New Jersey.

From Salon

“To put a finer point on it: Defendants are chewing up alienated teenage boys and spitting out mass shooters,” the complaint claims, noting that the three most deadly K-12 school shootings in American history — Uvalde, Parkland and Sandy Hook — were all committed by young men who played “Call of Duty” and used an AR-15.

From Los Angeles Times

The "soundtrack" to their school runs, Gabriel says, was conspiracy theorist Alex Jones talking about how the Sandy Hook school shooting was staged or 9/11 "was an inside job".

From BBC

More than 110 years later, the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School brought the community of Newtown, Connecticut, to its knees.

From Salon