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

Pod 1° long, with linear stalk, containing many seeds separated by filamentous isthmuses.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

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 Humboldt, Alexander von

M. de Lesseps was elected to the Academy in 1885, when M. Renan said he had been born to pierce isthmuses, and that antiquity would have made him a god.

From The West Indies and the Spanish Main by Rodway, James

The natural route lay obviously through the Caribbean, across some one of the isthmuses, and up the Pacific coast.

From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Fish, Carl Russell