Hyannis Port

[ hahy-an-is ]

noun

1. a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.

Example Sentences

Granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill — daughter of Courtney Kennedy Hill — was found dead of an accidental overdose in August 2019 at the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. She was 22.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr Kennedy, who is said to enjoy studying animal skulls and skeletons, reportedly heard that the dead animal had washed up in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, where the family was staying.

From BBC

While his daughter Kick Kennedy likely did not intend the anecdote to be controversial when she shared it with Town & Country Magazine in 2012, the Washington D.C.-based Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund claims Kennedy committed a felony by transporting the skull from the beach of Squaw Island in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts across state lines.

From Salon

Players still live with host families, and many work as camp instructors to earn extra money, but they aren’t placed in summer jobs like the days of yore, when Buck Showalter, who hit .434 for Hyannis in 1976, worked as a short-order breakfast cook and cleaned fences at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, and Albert Belle — known as Joey then — worked as a gas station attendant while playing for Chatham in 1986.

From Los Angeles Times

They cleaned up well for formal occasions, Jackie in her exclusive Oleg Cassini creations, John in white tie and tails, but they were even more appealing glimpsed at rest or play or on the water off Hyannis Port.

From Los Angeles Times