Example sentences for: isles

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

  • Calling this "a systematic flouting of state authority, a murderous form of gangsterism by which republicans seek to exert their illegal authority over 'their' areas," the paper said in an editorial: "If one could imagine such a process applied across the British Isles, that would be equivalent of nearly 20,000 people violently evicted from their homes.

  • The esszet (pronounced ess-tset) was formed when mediæval (for US read medieval) humanists got carried away and tried to force German into the Græco-Latin mould of grammar and spelling (a disease that spread to the British Isles, too).

  • Another world unto itself, the exhilarating chaos of Naples commands its magnificent bay, the visible isles of Ischia and Capri, and the ruins of Pompeii in the shadow of Vesuvius, its still active volcano.

  • Norse culture peaked 1,500 years ago when the Vikings-- über capitalists--pillaged the British Isles.

  • 200,000 copies of “The Magnet” were sold weekly throughout the British Isles.


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