[
US
/ˈfɛɹbəŋks/
]
NOUN
- United States film actor noted for his swashbuckling roles (1883-1939)
- United States film actor; son of Douglas Elton Fairbanks, (1909-2000)
How To Use Fairbanks In A Sentence
- It is some fifteen hundred miles from there to Fairbanks.
- FAIRBANKS - Fairbanks police have made an arrest in connection with the armed robbery earlier this week of an Airport Way gas station. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- The yard switcher for the day was Milwaukee 760, the first Fairbanks Morse diesel locomotive - built just 50 miles northwest of Union, in Beloit, Wisconsin.
- Heis also an ancestor of William Howard Taft, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks and the father and son Governors of Vermont Erastus Fairbanksand Horace Fairbanks.
- In Fairbanks it is considered an offense to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose.
- We then hotfooted it to nearby Coldfoot, mile 175 on the Dalton Highway, the 414-mile gravel road that runs from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay. Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold?
- The best of these yappers will be off on The Quest this winter - a 1, 000-mile race from Fairbanks, Alaska, across the frozen wastes down to Whitehorse.
- Barthelmess mostly fares okay, other than a few over-the-top speeches, but the fresh-faced Fairbanks can't shake a kind of gee-whiz naiveté, and William Janney, playing Scott's younger brother Donny, is even more overwound. The Dawn Patrol (1930)
- Fairbanks' silent action flick, cinematizing McCulley's story with clever verve and humor, set the style and plot for most of the screenplays to follow.
- Hector Douglas, a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher, said he made the discovery in the feathers of the crested auklet after applying a little scientific intuition and sacrificing some of his own blood.... So that's how they do it..