We found 646 examples of how to use island in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 646.
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| 1. | "Take all the land you want", said the Aborigine chief. "Oh no," said the English general, "we will take just an island." "And which island?" asked the Aborigene chief. "Just the island of Australia," replied the English general. | |
| 2. | Bananal Island, in the Araguaia River in Goias State, Brazil, is the largest river island in the world. | |
| 3. | Kotlin Island, an island 32 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg, was taken from Sweden in 1703 by Peter the Great, who then founded Kronstadt and left Pushkin's great-grandfather, Abram Gannibal, the main character in Pushkin's unfinished book, Peter the Great's Negro, to oversee the construction. Kronstadt was also the birth place of Pyotr Kapitsa, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978. | |
| 4. | Makemake was named after one of the gods from the Rapanui culture. The Rapanui people are natives of Easter Island. Easter Island is located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. | |
| 5. | Brahe built a castle on the island and named it Uraniborg after Urania, the goddess of the sky. He also built an observatory on the island. | |
| 6. | The Flevopolder, the southern island of Flevoland, is the biggest artificial island in the world with an area of 970 km². | |
| 7. | Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia. | |
| 8. | Reunion Island is an island in the western Indian Ocean. | |
| 9. | Assateague Island is a 43.5-kilometer barrier island. | |
| 10. | Phragmites plants growing on Staten Island draft in a breeze in the Oakwood Beach neighborhood of Staten Island. | |
| 11. | Johnston Island and Sand Island were designated wildlife refuges in 1926. | |
| 12. | Just west of Rio de Janeiro, Furtada Island is widely known as "Island of the Cats." | |
| 13. | Seen from the sky, the island was very beautiful. | |
| 14. | A bridge gives access to the island. | |
| 15. | Churches were erected all over the island. | |
| 16. | A fishing light wavers under the lee of an island. | |
| 17. | We took a ferry from the island to the mainland. | |
| 18. | We were landed on a lonely island. | |
| 19. | We arrived on the island two days later. | |
| 20. | Our boat approached the small island. | |
| 21. | Tourists take over this island in the summer. | |
| 22. | I am just a castaway on an island lost at sea. | |
| 23. | We can see the island in the distance. | |
| 24. | We saw an island in the distance. | |
| 25. | Viewed from a distance, the island looked like a cloud. |