Example Sentences

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The 23-year-old is one of more than 100 Solomon Islander students who had been given prestigious scholarships to study at Taiwanese universities.

From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2019

Travis started playing his ukulele, and Kemuel Laeta, a Solomon Islander with a water-bottle tambourine, and two Kenyans, Karisa and Dan Noel Odaba, whose sense of rhythm I envied, began a jamming session.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2017

The Australian, the Bushman, the Solomon Islander, in hours of danger and necessity 'yearns after the gods,' and has present in his heart the idea of a father and friend.

From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Lang, Andrew

The Solomon Islander clambered over the bulwarks with the end of the rope in his teeth.

From Lord Jim by Conrad, Joseph

Araki was a runaway "black boy," or Solomon Islander, from the German plantations, who became a member of the Vailima household in a rather dramatic way.

From The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift