Islands
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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It spanned multiple countries including Spain and Switzerland as well as the Cayman Islands.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
Walter Theodore Rollins was born Sept. 7, 1930, at his grandmother’s house in Harlem, the youngest of three children to parents who had immigrated from the Virgin Islands.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are famous for animals found nowhere else on Earth, including giant tortoises and marine iguanas.
From Science Daily • May 25, 2026
On the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands, a submersible controlled by scientists came across a mysterious octopus as blue as the ocean and no bigger than a golf ball.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
We, my mother and I, were headed to meet my father in the Philippine Islands, where we would live for three years.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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