islands
Example Sentences
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The crew found itself off the coast of Palau, an archipelago of some 340 small islands in the Pacific with a total land area of 189 square miles.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
The species is currently spread across four locations, including two islands off the coast of Western Australia.
From Science Daily • May 20, 2026
As tourists start to look further afield, seeking out less well-known destinations, smaller Caribbean islands such as Grenada are also seeing legal disputes.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
They are the smallest tiger subspecies and are native to Sumatra, one of Indonesia's largest islands.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
They would strike camp again and head west over the ice, trying to narrow the gap between themselves and the islands.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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