Sea Islands

American  

plural noun

1. a group of islands in the Atlantic, along the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and N Florida.

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Sea Islands British  

plural noun

1. a chain of islands in the Atlantic off the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida

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Example Sentences

In her “Sea Island Series,” Weems carefully pairs landscapes of the coastal Sea Islands off Georgia and the Carolinas with text evoking the Gullah culture that developed there.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Cotton-clad members of a Gullah family plan to move from the Sea Islands to the mainland in 1902.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2019

Long-staple cotton grew long delicate fibers with smooth seeds that a pair of rollers could easily separate, but it would not grow outside the semitropical environment of the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

“The Sea Islands are sacred ground; they represent our Ellis Island,” Ms. Dash said in a “making of” short about the film.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2016

Many game songs originated in the Georgia Sea Islands, a series of over 100 islands off the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin