Example Sentences

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Post-mortem examinations are to be carried out on Tuesday on two teenagers from Dublin who died on the Greek island of Ios.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2023

The installation’s structure is inspired by yet another muse: Homer’s purported grave on the Greek island of Ios, which consists of piles of rocks placed by visitors.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023

In October, they interrogated a submarine cable that connects the islands of Santorini and Ios.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 8, 2021

Last summer, I had lunch in a beach-side taverna on the island of Ios, which I had last visited when it was a hippy haven in the 1970s.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2015

The answer is ‘Certainly;’ and Trygæus points out the star into which Ios of Chios has just been metamorphosed. 

From Custom and Myth by Lang, Andrew