island
noun
a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
island-like
-
a word derived from
island.
Example Sentences
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The 186-foot-long chute curves around island-like foliage and palm trees before dumping ridegoers into a Dory-themed Pixel Pool that includes an underwater painting of Hank the septopus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
Dr. Yuyuan Xie uses satellites to study Sargassum, a genus of large brown algae that floats around in island-like masses.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2023
The seaweed tends to bob around in island-like masses that can stretch for miles.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
And the destruction of habitats, in effect, created island-like fragments.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
The water would rise along the hollows, longitudinal and transverse, forming sounds and lochs, and surround, island-like, the more deeply submerged eminences.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
