Kingstonian

/kɪŋˈstəʊni.ən/

"Kingstonian" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Other good seaside options include Hellshire Beach – a quintessential Kingstonian seaside experience – and Bull Bay, with its small surfing community.

[...] I love Jamaica and I am Jamaican, and I will never be anything but unapologetically Jamaican to my core as my Kingstonian bredren would say [...]

Thus by 1991 a quarter of Kingstonian households did not have sewerage facilities while only 60 per cent of homes had piped water.

But John Macaulay remained the most Kingstonian of conservatives: responsible, respectable, and unquestioning in his faith in material prosperity as a sure cure for political ailments.

Yet merely because the Kingston Gazette drew a good deal of its articles from these sources did not mean that there was an alliance between a Kingstonian elite and New England and New York Federalists.

Of course Don Cherry, the other formidable Kingstonian cheerleader, remains a stubborn member of the Kingston hockey revisionists.

In 1860 Kingston had not a 'street that can exhibit a square yard of pavement'. Stable manure was used to repair road surfaces and any Kingstonian abroad at night risked life and limb.

With their themes and varied attractions, these parties became a much-anticipated event for Kingstonians on Christmas day after their dinner.

Want to feel like a Kingstonian? Then do as the locals do and head to this casual restaurant, grab a picnic table, and order up some jerk and a Red Stripe.

These views, coming from one of the most influential men in the province, a Kingstonian who was soon to become one of the founders of the penitentiary, are significant.

It used to be said that you had to have three generations of ancestors buried in the Cataraqui Cemetery before you could be reckoned as one of the "Old Stones", or even rightly call yourself a Kingstonian.

The political leader of Canada, the son of a man who took great pains to differentiate the Canadian identity from the elephant to the south, gave a surprisingly typical response at once rooted in our national insecurity and summing up the collective evolution of many fans' thoughts, including that of the proud Kingstonian sitting beside me at the show.

The character of the inhabitants during this long period seems, on their own shewing, to have been far from reputable; every vice and every species of immorality appears to have been practised more or less openly, and it was not till the present century that any great or marked improvement took place in the intelligence or prosperity of the Kingstonians.

[...] we shall turn to the east and finish the purlieus of Hampton with a glance at the old Saxon town of Kingston-on-Thames. Probably an ardent Kingstonian would indignantly disown the impression our three words are apt to give of the place.

Kingstonians blessed or cursed with a nagging wife just complained to the Bailiffs who had her placed in the ducking stool and forcibly immersed in the river.

The churchyard is therefore still the final resting place of Kingstonians, as is the Memorial Garden, which was once the church 'overflow' burial ground.

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