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US
/nænˈtəkɪt/
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NOUN
- an island resort off Cape Cod; formerly a center of the whaling industry
How To Use Nantucket In A Sentence
- Putting Cape Wind in Nantucket Sound is like putting a refinery in Yellowstone. The Volokh Conspiracy » Cape Wind Approved
- Due to Coffin's influence, the Coffin School, a private academy on Nantucket reopened in 1903.
- On October 26, 1973, the Nantucket lightship reported sustained winds of 115 knots, and seas of 45 feet.
- Because we are familiar with major astronomical observatories being sited atop remote mountain peaks, it seems peculiar that Nantucket has so many connections with astronomy.
- By the way, if anyone sees my boss, remember that the Republican scumbag thinks I'm on Nantucket with my fraternity brothers.
- A trip to Block Island "the Bermuda of the North," a partygoer quipped, then Nantucket, then Newport. Melissa Berkelhammer: Friday Night, And the Cruising Is Easy
- Interestingly, the area south of Nantucket is one of the most useless patches of ocean off the US east coast, full of shoals that make it dangerous to transit. The Volokh Conspiracy » Cape Wind Approved
- Not only does it start in Nantucket, but a perusal of the chapter titles gives away the subversive subtext: A Reminder: Don't Fuck With the Assistant
- Notice the wind coming in out of the north, near Hartford, back over to Newark, more of a north-northwesterly breeze, around 20 to 18 miles an hour -- in Nantucket, 38 to 34 miles an hour. CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2007
- Seafarers made household utensils, such as sewing tools, from whalebone, and today scrimshaw is as much associated with Nantucket as the lightship baskets unique to the island.