peninsula

Example Sentences

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Someone instructs you to tear off pieces and dip them in the accompanying guava and plantain chutneys, silky chickpea curry and punchy pepper jelly, pooled around a peninsula of tangy cultured butter.

From The Wall Street Journal

It swallowed up the entire peninsula, and when it was gone, South Florida had been entirely erased from the map.

From Literature

Any civilian involvement would be "a serious crime that threatens peace on the Korean peninsula", he warned.

From Barron's

After she died in 2024 in northern Spain, aged 117, scientists took samples from her stool, blood, saliva, and urine and compared them with 75 other women from the Iberian peninsula.

From BBC

Since it was still too early to check in, I shook off the postmeal fatigue and drove downtown, to the heart of the peninsula, and parked on King Street.

From The Wall Street Journal