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Example sentences for: isles

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The Scot in Mr. MacIntosh's story is looking for his gaffer, a word used throughout the British Isles--not just in Scotland--to mean a boss.
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.
Schoolchildren all over the British Isles speak the local dialect at home and in the playground but switch to Received English--the language of BBC announcers, Whitehall, the great universities and the public school--once the school bell has sounded.
Here even the bridges — connecting lake isles to the palace shores — wouldn’t be out of place in a Ming or Qing scroll painting, particularly the celebrated Seventeen-Arch Bridge (Shiqi Kong Qiao), 150 m (492 ft) long and built of white marble.
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.