Sheerness
Americannoun
noun
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"We need to focus a big regeneration project on Sheerness itself and on the towns on the western side of the island, because that will help us bring in new job opportunities," he says.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
The ship which grounded on a sandbank near Sheerness, Kent in World War Two is decaying.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2024
He had driven from Sheerness to the school in Minster before returning home.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023
HMS Plym set sail from Chatham to Sheerness, where the bomb was loaded, on her way to the Monte Bello Islands for Operation Hurricane.
From BBC • Oct. 3, 2022
Lords Liverpool and Castlereagh are lustily rowing the Billy Pitt; Canning, seated in the stern, is towing the captured fleet into Sheerness, with the Union Jack flying over the forts.
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber
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