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Islands in sentence

538 examples of Islands in a sentence

And so I have been looking at floating islands.
The Japanese are interested in building floating islands.
Either we live on floating islands, or we have to build up the islands to continue to stay out of the water as the sea level rises and as the storms get more severe.
In the 1980's, islands of similar networks speaking different dialects sprung up all over Europe and the States, making remote access possible but torturous.
From the shores of Africa we travel east, across the vastness that is the Indian Ocean to the Maldives, an archipelago of coral islands.
Now, fisherman from neighboring islands, they once hunted these manta rays to make traditional drums from their skins.
That involved using plantations and imported slave labor in the Caribbean and on islands off the coast of Africa.
It costs around a thousand euros to take a smuggler from Turkey to the Greek islands.
It would save lives, it would undercut the entire market for smugglers, and it would remove the chaos we see from Europe's front line in areas like the Greek islands.
Just yesterday, I was reading about how you can take out a boat on Europa and sail from island to island all over the planet, and some of the islands have villages that you can stay and visit and sleep under the shadow of Jupiter.
Most recently, I visited the icy coast of Greenland and the low-lying islands of the Maldives, connecting two seemingly disparate but equally endangered parts of our planet.
The melting glaciers in Greenland are one of the largest contributing factors to rising sea levels, which have already begun to drown some of our world's lowest-lying islands.
It's also hot, huge and unruly, made up of 17,000 islands, where people speak close to a thousand languages.
In the country's first free elections, in 1999, Islamist parties scored 36 percent of the vote, and the islands burned as riots and terror attacks killed thousands.
For instance, human settlers bring dogs, cats, and stowaway rodents to islands.
This is a small group of islands deep in the cold Bering Sea between the US and Russia.
As the seals leave the islands and swim from left to right, they are observed to dive at a relatively shallow depth of about 20 meters, which the drone identifies is populated by small young pollock with low calorific content.
First, we can create low-stakes islands in an otherwise high-stakes sea.
What if we created more low-stakes islands and waters?
He was a poor boy from the islands who had this rapid and amazing rise to success, and he wanted government to give poor boys and girls like him a chance to succeed, using limited but energetic government to create social mobility.
10,000 square kilometers, tens of thousands of islands flung like jewels upon the southern sea.
These are men and women who can sense the presence of distant atolls of islands beyond the visible horizon, simply by watching the reverberation of waves across the hull of their vessel, knowing full well that every island group in the Pacific has its unique refractive pattern that can be read with the same perspicacity with which a forensic scientist would read a fingerprint.
And then something extraordinary happened on the tiny Micronesian Yap islands.
By creating pathways between houses of worship within one neighborhood, we would create islands of stability and networks of people that could withstand threats.
PA: We learned so much about movement, about love and about art at its most impactful: when it articulates the impossible and when it erodes individualism, when it plays into the gray places of our black and white worlds, when it does what our democracy does not, when it reminds us that we are not islands, when it adorns every street but Wall Street and Madison Avenue, when it reminds us that we are not islands and refuses to succumb to the numbness, when it indicts empire and inspires each and every one of us to love, tell the truth and make revolution irresistible.
For example, why is it that in the Pacific, of those hundreds of Pacific islands, why did Easter Island end up as the most devastating case of complete deforestation?
Easter, of all Pacific islands, has the least input of dust from Asia restoring the fertility of its soils.
I got on a sailboat and I sailed down to the Caribbean, and walked through all of the islands, and to Venezuela.
You can think of the Earth's biosphere as a palace, and the continents are rooms in the palace, and the islands are small rooms.
In “The God’s Script,” at the very beginning of the world the god writes exactly one message into the spots of the jaguars, who then “love and reproduce without end, in caverns, in cane fields, on islands, in order that the last men might receive it.”
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