Isle of Pines
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Then, in 1950 a French geologist compared Meyer's shards with recent finds from the Isle of Pines, south of New Caledonia, and realised that they belonged to the same tradition.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2010
At a huge prison on the Isle of Pines, off Cuba's south coast, 10,000 prisoners live in a space for 5,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The government built four boarding schools for Angolan and Mozambican teen-agers on the Isle of Pines off the south coast of Cuba.
From Time Magazine Archive
He announced that they would be permitted to land temporarily on the Isle of Pines, ancient pirate hideout 50 miles south of Cuba.
From Time Magazine Archive
I guess Fidel did this when he was in prison in the Isle of Pines, and so we have to do it, too.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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