mainland
Example Sentences
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The tour boat takes bird watchers from Cape Town to see endangered seabirds, including albatrosses, that are hard to find on the mainland.
From BBC
Eurostar, which operates services between Britain and mainland Europe, urged customers to "check for live updates on the status of your train".
From Barron's
The wolves were also smaller than typical mainland wolves, and one showed unusually low genetic diversity, often seen in isolated populations or those shaped by human control.
From Science Daily
Beijing said it would freeze the assets of the sanctioned entities, ban them from Chinese transactions and prohibit the executives from entering mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.
There have been deer in mainland Britain for thousands of years but only two of the now six species that live here are natives, namely red and roe deer.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
