Example sentences for: islander

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

  • In his earnest efforts to give the South a fair shake, Applebome, a native Long Islander now raising a family in Georgia, begins by puncturing Northern stereotypes and sanctimony about the South.

  • Of course, by the 1830s, when these dishes were made, the Japanese knew better but, like Steinberg's, the maps capture the cultural confidence of the playfully arrogant islander.

  • Block Islander Ellsworth Lathan assured me that his fellow-islanders refer to peat, once widely used for fuel, as tug .

  • A more recent famous Cat Islander is the actor Sidney Poitier, who was born in Arthur’s Town in the north.

  • Take, for instance, the Rhode Islander who pointed to a sparrow hawk (birders prefer to call it a kestrel) and, perhaps being mindful the early colony's questionable custom of profitable privateering, called it a privateer hawk . Would that be understood in Nebraska?


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