Thursday Island
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Yet leaving their home on Thursday Island in Torres Strait — where, Patty said, everyone “looked like me and spoke like me” — landed him in that kindergarten classroom where he was first punched.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2020
The fugitive was taken by police back as far as Thursday Island off the Queensland coast.
From Fox News ● Mar. 27, 2019
After his arrest, the man he was taken on board and transported to Thursday Island.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2019
Jesse Williams, 21, Aboriginal on his mother’s side, was born on Thursday Island, off the northern tip of Australia, and raised in Brisbane.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2011
Arriving in Thursday Island, one of the hottest and quaintest little spots on earth, I was fortunate enough to catch a British India mail boat in the act of starting for Brisbane.
From The Beautiful White Devil by Guy Newell Boothby
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