Example sentences for: antilles

How can you use “antilles” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Guilder is used in Netherlands Antilles and Suriname.

  • In the rest of The Bounty , Walcott relinquishes such allusive density for the simple, history-erasing realities of life in the Antilles islands: the mango trees that "serenely rust when they are in flower," the firefly that "keeps striking matches."

  • The few dozen islands and rocks are widely scattered along the great curving chain of the Lesser Antilles.

  • Perhaps 2,000 years ago, Indians sometimes called “Saloides” from the Orinoco basin in South America began migrating up the Antilles chain, reaching Martinique and Guadeloupe before a.d. 200.

  • Actually, the French West Indies (FWI), or Antilles Françaises as they’re called in France, are not at all a neat geographical cluster.


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