Words similar to antilles

Example sentences for: antilles

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

The few dozen islands and rocks are widely scattered along the great curving chain of the Lesser Antilles.
Its opening lines attempt to pry the beauty of the Antilles loose from advertising brochures, that false paradise in which, as Walcott wrote in his Nobel lecture, "the Caribbean is a blue pool into which the republic dangles the extended foot of Florida":
Depending on what kind of person you are, this may mean you should 1) establish an offshore casino in the Antilles before the Department of Justice cracks down, or 2) wait for this stuff to shake itself out before you blow 20 bucks playing Web roulette.
French Antilles citizens enjoy the same state benefits as all French citizens, drink the same famous wines, and eat the same cheeses and patés on baguettes just as crustily delicious as those turned out by every bakery in the métropole.
A little pun in his Nobel lecture appears to gloss over, and even celebrate, the privations of underdevelopment: "In the Antilles poverty is poetry with a 'v,' une vie , a condition of life as well as of imagination."