isthmus
noun
a narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land.
isthmuses
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pluralof isthmus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The Crimean Peninsula extends south from Ukraine’s mainland, with road connections on two isthmuses, one of which is less than 1 mile wide, and by a bridge from a narrow spit.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
Great masses of vegetation, piers, causeways, isthmuses of grass offered the illusion of growing out of the ocean bottom, linking themselves to the land, extending too late the lost coast far out into the Pacific.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
These two isthmuses in the eastern and western hemispheres have some obvious features in common.
From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by J. Saxon Mills
The substances washed down by rain-waters form by their accumulation new bars, isthmuses of deposited earth, and points of division that did not before exist.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
Nay, we ought to feel some shame when we reflect that evidences in the neighborhood of both isthmuses exist of such junction having existed, in what we are pleased to designate "barbarous" ages.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
