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

So the Evanses are here, and several harmless rural clergy; like them to the outer eye, though no doubt to the inner as dissimilar as each island-like human soul is from its neighbour.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda