island-hop
Americanverb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of island-hop
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Such journeys have become a rite of passage for the millions of tourists who island-hop through Greece every summer, dreaming of beaches, parties and feta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“There are species, especially of fish that prefer to live in a certain water depth, and they island-hop from one seamount to another,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
That would block the American military’s ability to island-hop and deploy forces quickly to Asia in the event of war, they said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
He booked a $12,000 flight home on a charter jet owned by an oil executive and other private flights to island-hop in the Caribbean.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2018
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen certainly feels this way, choosing instead to island-hop on his private playground Octopus, a $200 million, 416-foot megayacht.
From Forbes ● Mar. 10, 2010
Alternatively, sloths could have island-hopped from Anacortes or Guemes Island, which at low sea levels would have been the same peninsula, to Cypress to Blakeley to Orcas islands.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
As they clung to floating debris, they may have inadvertently island-hopped.
From National Geographic ● May 2, 2018
They also founded Dublin, made deep inroads into England and island-hopped across the North Atlantic.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2016
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and the new superintendent of Everglades National Park island-hopped in Florida Bay on Friday, gauging wetlands restoration efforts against the effects of climate change.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 9, 2015
A Marine who had island-hopped across the Pacific from Tarawa to Iwo Jima, Ed had seen the world by the time he was twenty and come back to West Virginia to forget it.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
A new missile-toting Marine Corps unit designed for an island-hopping fight is also based on Okinawa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
The vessel is going on a seven-day island-hopping voyage in the tropics.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2024
Meanwhile, the “Milkshake” singer has been on vacation with her family in Greece, posting several Instagram stories of their island-hopping adventures and absolutely nothing about her romantic life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Pursuing an island-hopping campaign to roll back Japanese seizures of land, the United States frequently had to engage the Japanese in dense jungle terrains.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
If Thorvald wanted to go island-hopping in chance of discovering what never had existed, Shann need not accompany him.
From Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton
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