Example sentences for: icelandic

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

  • Yet, apart from such figurative and poetic language, Icelandic seems not to confuse lids and lashes.

  • In addition to Anglo-Saxon and French stock brought here by the fur trade, late 19th-century immigration campaigns have given Manitoba thriving communities of Ukrainian, German, Jewish, Polish, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, and even Icelandic origin, with more recent arrivals from Asia and the Philippines.

  • An Old Icelandic kenning, hvarm-skógr , literally, eye-woods, means eyelashes, as if implying that the lashes resemble trees lined up along the eyelid.

  • One such analysis is the subject of a paper by Laufey Amundadottir and colleagues in this month's PLoS Medicine that assesses how much genetic factors contribute to cancer risk across the whole Icelandic population.

  • An old Icelandic word hvarma eyelid persists in archaic style in Modern Icelandic as well as in Faroese, where it is in competition with eygnalok .


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