Sumbawa
Americannoun
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.
The true cause of the Year Without Summer lay half a world away on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2016
It lay atop the tropic isle of Sumbawa, its spires rising nearly three miles.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2015
Travellers from New Zealand, Spain, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands were among those rescued after the boat hit a reef near Sangeang Api, a volcanic island off Sumbawa, in bad weather during the three-day journey.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2014
At Bima, on the northeast coast of Sumbawa about forty miles east of Tambora, the British resident reported that the blasts sounded like “a heavy mortar fired close to his ear.”
From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2013
We now stood back towards Sumbawa, as, with the wind from the eastward, it was the only course we could steer.
From Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston
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.
