atoll

Example Sentences

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When the Marines headed toward the beach on the Tarawa atoll in 1943, things didn’t go well.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

The island of Kiritimati - an atoll in the remote Pacific nation of Kiribati - became the first place to enter 2026.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

Under a contentious deal inked with Australia this year, the island nation will provide 30-year visas for up to 350 immigrants -- many convicted of serious crimes -- for resettlement on the barren atoll.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

The operation concerned a 50-mile-wide atoll, Rongelap Island, in the Marshall Islands.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

In the spring of 1951, the lab staged Project Greenhouse, a test of thermonuclear technology at the South Pacific coral atoll of Eniwetok.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik