Example sentences for: isles

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

  • (The Misty Isles, the mythical homeland of Queen Aleta in Prince Valiant , once made a practice of slaughtering shipwreck survivors the moment they washed up on beaches.

  • It said Blair had the scientific justification for such a gesture and that if he had decided to make it (which he didn't), it "would without doubt have had the merit of calming the enormous storm of Francophobia that is consuming the British Isles at the moment."

  • 4-km) round-trip trail from Happy Isles to Vernal Falls is within the scope of any reasonably fit and healthy person, following a well-marked path through the pine trees, with easy gradients.

  • Although it is strictly a part of the Spanish archipelago known as the Islas Pitiusas, or pine-covered isles, Ibiza in fact displays many of the characteristics of the Islas Baleares, or Balearic Islands, of neighbouring Mallorca and Menorca, with which it is commonly grouped.

  • The Celts, those ancient invaders from the continent who managed to survive the Roman occupation and resist the Latin tongue, contributed one word-- whiskey -- having legal significance but were driven, along with their reverse-order speech, into the nooks and corners of the British Isles and France by the fierce Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, wielding their broadswords and brutish monosyllables.


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