Gustavus
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Roy Owen Haynes was born March 13, 1925 in Roxbury, Mass. His parents, Gustavus and Edna Haynes, had moved to the area from Barbados.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024
Episodes like these occur too regularly, said Jon Grinnell, associate professor of biology and a bison expert at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024
Refrigerated rail cars were perfected in the 1870s by engineers working for U.S. meat packer Gustavus Swift.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Officials in Gustavus have been among those asking the department to activate the idle Tazlina ferry.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2022
Gustavus Swift boasted about the clever use of animal byproducts: “Now we use all of the hog except his grunt.”
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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