Pinkney
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
A hamlet in Sherston parish, north-west Wiltshire, England, also known as Sherston Parva (OS grid ref ST8686).
Source: en.wiktionary.orgPhrases with the word
Examples
Itasca was held to 37% shooting, but the Vikings’ Brian Pinkney Jr. led all scorers with 29 points.
Pinkney Lawson Trotter Sr., who owned a pharmacy in Pilot Mountain, brought his family to Mount Airy for “Lawson, Jr.” to have his “tonsils removed at Martin hospital.”
Social worker and political newcomer Marie Pinkney also was elected to the state Senate after knocking off the Senate president pro tem, who was first elected to the General Assembly in 1978, in a September Democratic primary.
Pinkney & Woock, Poverty and Politics in Harlem (1970), p. 33. In 1964, residents of Harlem staged two school boycotts to call attention to the problem.
Poverty and Politics in Harlem, Alphonso Pinkney & Roger Woock, College & University Press Services, Inc., 1970, p.33 Injecting heroin grew in popularity in Harlem through the 1950s and 1960s, though the use of this drug then leveled off.
Brian Pinkney also incorporates key parts of the text throughout his illustrations, emphasizing the words' poetic, dramatic tone.