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538 examples of Islands in a sentence

And while they can hold their cabinet meetings underwater to send an SOS to the world, their country can keep existing only if their islands keep existing.
Their islands are distant from where I live.
We've seen what happens when we divide an already small planet into smaller islands.
Enslaved at birth on the island of Grenada, Christophe spent his childhood being moved between multiple Caribbean islands.
We then were sort of coined as the guys who run only in small islands.
If you're thinking about it in terms of islands, we decided to go to the biggest island that we could find, and that was Australia.
The waters were full of fish and other creatures, and dotted with islands and caves.
And west Antarctica cropped up on top some under-sea islands, is particularly rapid in its melting.
The Maldives, as I'm sure you're aware, are a chain of islands off the southwest coast of India here.
Okinawa is actually 161 small islands.
Blue cheese, ranch, oil and vinegar, thousand islands and house.
And they're big mountains, thousands of feet tall, some of which are tens of thousands of feet and bust through the surface, creating islands like Hawaii.
And the reefs disappeared, and new islands formed, and we thought, "Well, we're real smart.
So we have not yet cracked the problem of making it available as a rescue device, as a vending device during the floods in eastern India, when you have to deliver things to people in different islands where they're marooned.
This sea is an archipelago belonging to Kiribati that spans across the equator and it has several uninhabited, unfished, pristine islands and a few inhabited islands.
When I counted penguins for the first time and tried to do a census, we just counted all the individual beaks that we could around all these islands.
We were trying to ski from this group of islands up here, Severnaya Zemlya, to the North Pole.
And that was one of my major discoveries, to find that these islands were the same as the whole big thing, more or less.
In this case, at these islands, you know, corals are instrumental-quality recorders of change in the water.
I had never heard of the islands 10 years ago, nor the country, Kiribati, that owns them, till two friends of mine who run a liveaboard dive boat in Fiji said, "Greg, would you lead a scientific expedition up to these islands?
And they've been uninhabited for most of time because even in the ancient days, these islands were too far away from the bright lights of Fiji and Hawaii and Tahiti for those ancient Polynesian mariners that were traversing the Pacific so widely.
And they have about 110,000 people spread out over 33 islands.
Some of the islands have already gone under water.
I can remember reading that Darwin had a pivotal experience in the Galapagos islands, seeing the vast range of animal life there, and intern, penned his theory of evolution.
On Monterey's windswept coast (and all that Monterey footage, while largely irrelevant, is interesting as a document of what the town looked like), amid all the overheated hysteria, these two are islands of sanity.
If I did not have a home in Rhodes, had I not been to Greece 28 times in as many years, were I not familiar with dozens of islands and cities in Greece and if I had never enjoyed the friendship of these ebullient, life-intoxicated people, I might have believed that this lamentation had something to do with modern Greece.
The scenery has changed from the California beaches to the Greek islands, and the only returning cast members from the first film are Sorrells Pickard (the bearded guy) and Roberta Collins (who at one point falls into a mud pit, bringing back memories of her classic catfight with Pam Grier in "The Big Doll House").
Captain Max Cash (Wayne Crawford) owns & runs a boat-for-hire named the 'Vagrant Viking' which caters for tourists who want to fish, dive & generally explore the islands.
Because of the persistence of Japanese soldiers on the small Japanese islands, the US decided to drop the bomb on populous cities in order to end the war, first Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.
The boot blacked midget from the Andoman islands looked as though he could not fight his way out of a paper bag and what the villain was doing taking tea in Baker Street for a denouement was beyond anything that the old Scotland Yard could ever have dreamed up.
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