Islands

/ ˈaɪləndz /

plural noun

1. the islands of the South Pacific

Example Sentences

From the South Carolina Lowcountry to the Jersey Shore to the islands of Massachusetts, food banks are seeing year-round workers — teachers, servers, landscapers, fishermen — lining up for help in numbers not seen since the pandemic.

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“Everyone was unemployed because tourism is the main money generator for our islands,” she said, “You saw food banks having to feed the need, which felt impossible. We saw lines as long as 700 cars per distribution in each district.”

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The native goose, with its black face and crown and its signature neck stripes, once thrived across the islands with a population of about 25,000 in the early 1800s, according to the National Wildlife Federation.

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Denmark worked on the new defence package with the governments of Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

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"The task of the Armed Forces is to ensure security throughout the Kingdom - and, if necessary, to defend Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Denmark within the framework of Nato in all domains," the Chief of Defence, Michael Hyldgaard, told Danish public broadcaster DR, without saying who the potential adversaries were.

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Related Words

• archipelago 
• enclave 
• isle 
• islet 
• peninsula 
• reef