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Sheerness

[ sheer-nis ]

noun

  1. a seaport in N Kent, in SE England on the Isle of Sheppey, at the mouth of the Thames: government dockyards.


Sheerness

/ ˌʃɪəˈ²ÔÉ›²õ /

noun

  1. a port and resort in SE England, in N Kent at the junction of the Medway estuary and the Thames: administratively part of Queenborough in Sheppey since 1968
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As Vogue wrote in January: "For a period of time, sheerness was few and far between, but nowadays, 'naked dressing' is commonplace every season."

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The ship which grounded on a sandbank near Sheerness, Kent in World War Two is decaying.

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It launched the scheme in 2007 after dozens of protests, with about 1,000 ASW workers in Cardiff, Belfast and Sheerness, Kent, losing pensions they had been paying into for decades.

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There will be no service on the Sheerness line after 10:00 for the rest of the day, and there are cancellations on the high speed line to and from London St Pancras throughout the day.

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The ship was destined for the Netherlands but, on the basis of information supplied by the NCA, specialist teams searched the vessel when it docked at Sheerness Port on 14 October.

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