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Example sentences for: isle

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In fact, the hammock was an Amerindian invention that remains with us today; it is an object which, more than any other, evokes an image of a warm sunny day on a tropical isle.
On a hill in the center of the isle is situated a Tibetan-style tower, the White Dagoba (Baita), at the back of Yongan Temple.
Thus the French île reminds us that the word was once spelled isle , from Latin insula; the name of the eight month, Août , reminds us that it came from the Latin augustus; and être betrays its origins as Latin esse with the same orthographical scar.
“But on your way, look out for Newfoundland,” seems to have been the slogan of the old North Atlantic navigators, from the good Irish Abbot Brendan in the sixth century and the wild Norsemen in the 11th, to all the Basque, French, Spanish, and Portuguese fishermen who preceded explorer John Cabot, paid £10 by Henry VII for finding “the new isle” in 1497.
Someone on the Isle of Wight complains that you couldn't get the children off to bed if it were still light at midnight,.