New Hebrides
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He once dived into the nearly 5-mile-deep New Hebrides trench near Tonga in a Nautile submarine.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2023
But the colonies were of limited value; for a while, the only pledge of support de Gaulle got was from New Hebrides, in the South Pacific, not hugely useful for a European war.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018
He returned to the South Pacific several years later and decided to go to Erromango, Vanuatu, then known as the New Hebrides.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2018
From 1906 until independence in 1980 these islands were jointly administered by Britain and France as the New Hebrides, so colonial relics remain – Winston Churchill Avenue runs into rue du Général de Gaulle.
From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2015
Another example of a correlation mistaken for a cause: In the New Hebrides Islands, body lice were considered a cause of good health.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
