isle

Example Sentences

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Among them were several spotted walking on a beach by residents of the tiny tourist and fishing isle.

From Seattle Times

The park happens to be Griffith Park, its wildness embodied by a hermit the narrator contemplates — “Gaunt Crusoe of a nowhere isle.”

From Los Angeles Times

In 2007, he published “Shot in Sicily,” a book of black-and-white photographs of locals and landscapes that captured the baroque spirit of the Mediterranean isle.

From New York Times

That can be a long time for people eager to board that flight to France or the cruise ship to the Greek isles.

From Los Angeles Times

The fiasco erupted in the wake of attempts by the government of Antigua and Barbuda to establish a direct air route between the twin isle nation and Central Africa.

From BBC